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Cruise
Transportation · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2013
Investors
41 investors on Cruise's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.
Cruise mafia
Startups founded by Cruise alumni
Former Cruise employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Luke HoloubekUnited States
Oliver CameronUnited States
Lei XuUnited States
Steve XieChina
Jason WilsonUnited States
Lawrence IbarriaUnited States
Matt CoxUnited States
Dustin DeckerUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Cruise has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Cruise's talent
Dealroom maps Cruise'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
$108M patent portfolio · 740 active families
Where Cruise concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Cruise 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
Cruise's 5 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Cruise appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2016–2021. 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.
5 deals across Cruise's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Cruise 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
Cruise'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 Cruise
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Cruise 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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