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Luminar

Transportation · Orlando, United States · Founded 2012 Unicorn

Autonomous vehicle sensor and software company with the vision to power global autonomy

Valuation
$392M
Market cap · 2026
Revenue
$66M
Latest reported FY

Investors

12 investors on Luminar's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 3 investors entered at this stage
Canvas Ventures
1517 Fund
GVA Capital
Series B+ 9 investors entered at this stage
Nick Woodman
The Westly Group
Corning
Moore Capital
Peter Thiel
Octave Ventures
Volvo Cars Tech Fund
Fernando Pontaza
G2 Venture Partners

Global footprint

Where Luminar has talent and traffic

AI talent share
2.3% of workforce is AI talent
(8 of 342 staff)
Core AI72.05%
Other AI10.29%
Non-AI workforce33497.66%
Workforce by country
13 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States69.3%
🇮🇳 India16.7%
🇩🇪 Germany8.5%
🇸🇪 Sweden2.2%
🇨🇳 China0.7%
Top 5 of 13 shown
Web traffic by country
25K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States30.4%
🏳️ Korea9.6%
🏳️ Republic of8.8%
🇨🇦 Canada6.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom6%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$137M patent portfolio · 296 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$137M
35.0% of market cap · 6.2× the top peer Innoviz Technologies ($22M)
296 active patent families
Where Luminar innovates LidarLight sourceMechanical engineeringLight scatteringMaterials science

Where Luminar concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Luminar and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

Compare against

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Luminar's 6 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Luminar appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2021–2025. 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.

Portfolio analysis

6 deals across Luminar's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Luminar'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        6 of 6 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Luminar

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Luminar 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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