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Websitesolarcity.com
Twitter@solarcity
CategoryCleanTech
Phone888-SOL-CITY
Employees
Founded2006
DescriptionSolar Panel Installation and Financing

Offices

HQ
3055 Clearview Way
San Mateo, CA, 94402
USA

People

Founder, CEO
Founder, COO
CFO
Board Member
board member
Chairman
Board Advisor

Acquisitions

Funding

TOTAL $455M
FUNDING TOTAL $455M
Venture Round, 9/06
Elon Musk
Peter Rive
Lyndon Rive
DFJ Growth
$10M
Series D, 10/08
First Solar
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
DBL Investors
$30M
Venture Round, 10/09
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
$24M
Series E, 1/10
$24M
Venture Round, 7/10
Mayfield Fund
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
DBL Investors
$21.5M
Venture Round, 7/11
$14.8M
Venture Round, 2/12
Valor Equity Partners
Nicholas J. Pritzker
Shea Ventures
DBL Investors
$81M
Venture Round, 6/12
U.S. Bancorp
$250M
DEBT TOTAL $60M
Debt, 1/10
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)
$60M

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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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Above: SolarCity
Uploaded: 1/11/11

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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. SolarCity Raises $81M in Equity Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  10. SolarCity Gets New $250 Million Fund From U.S. Bancorp (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
  11. Tale of Two Cities: Citigroup Commits $40 Million To Financing SolarCity Projects (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    SolarCity Acquires groSolar’s Residential Installation Business (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
    Google Scaling Solar, Commits $280 Million To Finance SolarCity Installations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    SolarCity lines up $350M loan for massive military solar project (gigaom.com) [edit]
    SolarCity Raises $500M From Goldman Sachs to Finance Solar Roofs (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
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