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Aurora
Transportation · Pittsburgh, United States · Founded 2017 · Public via SPAC 2021
Aurora mafia
Startups founded by Aurora alumni
Former Aurora employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Reid HoffmanUnited States
Aric LasryFrance
Asta L.United States
Harishma DayanidhiUnited States
Ben BurchfielUnited States
Nick WaltonUnited States
Manu KumarUnited States
Zachary SussmanUnited States
Cameron FlanneryUnited States
Ophir SamsonUnited States
Simon BoxUnited States
Vivek VelivelaUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Aurora has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Aurora's talent
Dealroom maps Aurora's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$395M patent portfolio · 591 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
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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