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Aurora
Self-driving vehicle technology company
At a glance
- Founded
- 2017
- Headquarters
- Pittsburgh, United States
- Listing
- Public via SPAC 2021
- Sector
- Transportation
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Aurora.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later13 investors entered at this stage
- RCReinvent Capital
- MPMillennium Technology Value Partners
- SVShell Ventures
Baillie Gifford- HCHyundai Motor Company
- GCGeodesic Capital
T. Rowe Price
Uber
Sequoia
Amazon
Lightspeed Venture Partners- KMKia Motors
Section 32
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Aurora employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
MAManas AIEst. 2025
Reid HoffmanUnited States
RERevoxEst. 2025
Aric LasryFrance
PRPrivyEst. 2021
Asta L.United States
VOVoxelEst. 2020
Harishma DayanidhiUnited States
WRWalden RoboticsEst. 2026
Ben BurchfielUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
591 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Aurora was the 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.
Where Aurora deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Aurora on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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