Total raised averaged per day over approximately 15.0 years from founding to bankruptcy or shutdown. This is not measured cash burn. Methodology
Funding: Forbes/Crunchbase news
Current status
Chapter 11 (Apr 2024); emerged May 2024 as a private company under creditor ownership
The rise & fall
8 moments · 2007–2024
The key moments, with employee sentiment along the way.
2007
🌱
2007
Founded to reinvent the window
Starts life as Soladigm, promising electrochromic glass that tints itself on command.
Wikipedia
2018
🦄
2018
SoftBank's $1.1B pane of glass
The Vision Fund pours $1.1B into the smart-glass maker — more than a decade in and still unprofitable.
CNBC
Mar 2021
📈
Mar 2021
The peak: a $1.6B SPAC debut$1.6B
Merges with Cantor Fitzgerald's CF Acquisition Corp II and lists on Nasdaq, with roughly $2B of capital raised along the way.
SEC filing
2021
2021
The accounting comes unglued
An internal investigation into understated warranty liabilities brings restatements, delayed filings and delisting warnings.
SEC filing
2022
💔
2022
Slips out of the club
Going-concern doubts and a cash crunch drag the stock far below its debut price.
SEC filing
2018–21
💬
From the inside · Glassdoor reviews, 2018–21
Years before the end, Glassdoor reviews read like a warning label: a culture of fear, layoffs staff said were timed to cut costs before the IPO, and over $1B spent with little profit to show. Many employees called View a glass manufacturer dressed up as a tech company.
Apr 2024
🪦
Apr 2024
Chapter 11 — joins the Unitard Club 💔
Three years after its $1.6B listing, View files for bankruptcy at roughly 1% of peak, with about $2B of investor capital consumed.
Reuters
2024
2024
Emerges as a private company
Creditors take the keys; the smart-glass business carries on outside the public markets.
Court filing
💬 entries paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor ↗; dated facts carry their source.
How it happened
View Inc makes smart electrochromic glass for buildings and went public via SPAC in 2021 at a valuation around $1.6B. Heavy losses, warranty-liability and accounting issues, and a cash crunch crushed the stock, and it filed for Chapter 11 in 2024 (~-99% from peak).
Source: De-SPAC 2021
Founders & leadership
RM
Rao Mulpuri
CEO (2008-2024)
Now Executive Board Member at Silicon Valley Leadership Group · LinkedIn ↗
PN
Paul Nguyen
co-founder (founded it as eChromics in April 2007, later Soladigm)
No public profile matched
MS
Mike Scobey
co-founder
No public profile matched
Current roles as self-reported on LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-08-21. See our methodology.
Disclosed investors (14)
Historical funding participation; lists may be incomplete and do not establish current ownership or investor losses.
