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Aurora
Transportation · Pittsburgh, United States · Founded 2017 Decacorn
Aurora mafia
Startups founded by Aurora alumni
Former Aurora employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Asta L.United States
Harishma DayanidhiUnited States
Aric LasryFrance
Zachary SussmanUnited States
Cameron FlanneryUnited States
Nick WaltonUnited States
Ophir SamsonUnited States
Simon BoxUnited States
Nicolas HenryFrance
Reid HoffmanUnited States
CJ KetchumUnited States
Michael R. BockUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Aurora has talent and traffic
(97 of 2,485 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$477M patent portfolio · 664 active families
Where Aurora concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Aurora and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Aurora's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Aurora appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2019–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
3 deals across Aurora's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Aurora's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Aurora
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Aurora on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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