View Inc
Smart glass/buildtechUSA
New to Unitard
💀 Dead / Bankrupt
Peak $1.6 BillionToday
~-99%
from peak
- 🦄Became a unicorn2018
- 📈Peak valuation$1.6 Billion ’21
- 💔Became a Unitard2022
- 💸Last valuationWiped out
🔥 Raised & burned
$2B
Total raised
$364K/day
Burned · 15.0y alive
Funding: Forbes/Crunchbase news
Current status
Bankrupt 2024
The rise & fall
8 moments · 2007–2024The 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
$1.58Bof peak value erased · 15 years
💬 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
Where they went
- Rao MulpuriCEO (2008-2024)Executive Board Member at Silicon Valley Leadership Group
- Paul Nguyenco-founder (founded it as eChromics in April 2007, later Soladigm)Not on record
- Mike Scobeyco-founderNot on record
Current roles as self-reported on LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-08-21. See our methodology.
