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Websitesolarcity.com
CategoryCleanTech
Phone888-SOL-CITY
Employees
DescriptionSolar Panel Installation and Financing

Offices

HQ
3055 Clearview Way
San Mateo, CA, 94402
USA

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Founder, COO
Chairman
Founder, CEO
CFO

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Funding

Total$184M
Unattributed, 9/06
Elon Musk
Peter Rive
Lyndon Rive
$10M
Series D, 10/08
First Solar
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
DBL Investors
$30M
Unattributed, 10/09
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
$24M
Debt, 1/10
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)
$60M
Series E, 1/10
$24M
Unattributed, 7/10
Mayfield Fund
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
DBL Investors
$21.5M
Unattributed, 7/11
$14.8M

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SolarCity

Founded in 2006, SolarCity is a full-service solar provider for homeowners, businesses and government organizations. It provides solar power system design, financing, installation, energy efficiency and monitoring services.

SolarCity’s operations are in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington D.C.

According to the company’s website, SolarCity’s founders believe that the environmental impact of energy production is one of the greatest challenges that our planet will face in the near future, and the company aims to alleviate this impact with solar power systems.

Their stated mission is to “make solar power the workhorse of the world’s energy production…one installation at a time.”

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Sources

  1. SolarCity Buys Up Home Energy Software Startup Building Solutions (zikkir.com) [edit]
  2. Musk leads $10M investment in SolarCity — to provide solar for all (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  3. LA Times (latimes.com) [edit]
  4. Draper Fisher [edit]
  5. PG&E Corp To Provide $60M In Financing For Solar Installations (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  6. SolarCity Uses $24M Recent Round To Expand (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  7. SolarCity Bags $21.5M for Solar Rooftops (earth2tech.com) [edit]
  8. SolarCity aims for $42M to expand solar roofs (gigaom.com) [edit]
  9. Tale of Two Cities: Citigroup Commits $40 Million To Financing SolarCity Projects (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. SolarCity Acquires groSolar’s Residential Installation Business (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
  11. Google Scaling Solar, Commits $280 Million To Finance SolarCity Installations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. SolarCity lines up $350M loan for massive military solar project (gigaom.com) [edit]
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