Who invested in SolarCity?
SolarCity's investors include DFJ, DBL Investors, Valor Equity Partners, Silver Lake Partners and Elon Musk, and 11 more on record.
United States · Funded startup
15 rounds we have observed, with the 16 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.
Funding summaryUpdated 26 Oct 2026
$1.2Braised across 15 rounds since 2006, from 15 sources
Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.
Reported by greentechmedia.comSEC filing: $66M sold, first sale Feb 2012
No investor was named in the report.
From a historical funding recordSEC filing: $66M sold, first sale Feb 2012
Reported by finsmes.comSEC filing: $66M sold, first sale Feb 2012
From a historical funding recordSEC filing: $66M sold, first sale Feb 2012
No investor was named in the report.
Reported by gigaom.comSEC filing: $15M sold, first sale Jun 2011
The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.
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SolarCity's investors include DFJ, DBL Investors, Valor Equity Partners, Silver Lake Partners and Elon Musk, and 11 more on record.
SolarCity has raised $1.2B across 15 rounds since 2006. One round did not disclose an amount, so the total is a floor.
SolarCity's most recent round was an Undisclosed round of $113M in Nov 2015.
SolarCity's largest round on record is $280M (Growth), in Jun 2011.
SolarCity's first round on record, in Sept 2006, was backed by DFJ, Elon Musk and Lyndon Rive and 1 others.
SolarCity's latest named round is an Undisclosed round, in Nov 2015.
SolarCity is based in the United States.
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