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title: "SolarCity: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "SolarCity Corporation was a publicly traded company headquartered in Fremont, California, that sold and installed solar energy generation systems as well as other related products and services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The company was founded on July 4, 2006, by Peter and Lyndon Rive, the cousins of SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-solarcity
type: Organization
wikidata: Q7555824
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity
website: http://www.solarcity.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# SolarCity

> SolarCity Corporation was a publicly traded company headquartered in Fremont, California, that sold and installed solar energy generation systems as well as other related products and services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The company was founded on July 4, 2006, by Peter and Lyndon Rive, the cousins of SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2006-01-01
- Dissolved: 2016-01-01
- Headquarters: San Mateo
- Status: closed
- Website: http://www.solarcity.com/
- Employees: 15,000 (as of 2016-12-01)
- Also known as: SolarCity Corporation
- Industries: solar industry

## Accounts

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solarcity

## Key people

- Lyndon Rive, founder (South African businessman (born 1977))
- Lyndon Rive, chief executive (South African businessman (born 1977))
- Elon Musk, chair (American businessman (born 1971)), since 2006-01-01

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2012-03-07: Form D, USD 66 million sold of a USD 81 million offering, 3 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408356/000140835612000003/))
- 2011-07-01: Form D, USD 14.8 million sold of a USD 42 million offering, 12 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408356/000140835611000001/))

## Revenue

- undated: USD 59.6 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 126.9 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 163.8 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 255 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 399.6 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 730.3 million (SEC filing)

## Ownership

Parent: [Tesla](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-tesla.md)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on SolarCity, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-solarcity#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7555824, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001408356

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