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Tesla
Transportation · Austin, United States · Founded 2003 · IPO 2010 Mag 7
A global leading manufacturer of electric cars
Tesla mafia
Startups founded by Tesla alumni
Former Tesla employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Hamish McKenzieUnited States
Drew BaglinoUnited States
Mira MuratiUnited States
Florian JuengermannUnited States
Robert RoseUnited States
Tony ZhaoUnited States
Philipp SchröderGermany
Aaron CannonUnited States
Chris WaltiUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Tesla has talent and traffic
(739 of 85,240 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$880M patent portfolio · 976 active families
Where Tesla concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Tesla and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Tesla's 13 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Tesla appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2015–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
13 deals across Tesla's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Tesla deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Tesla's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Tesla
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Tesla on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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