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Ouster

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High-performance lidar sensors for automotive, robotics, mapping and other applications

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2015Transportation
Valuation $2.47B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $220M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2015
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Listing
Public via SPAC 2021
Sector
Transportation
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News Ouster raises $200M in stock sale as lidar shares surge Jul 2, 2026

Investors

11 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed3 investors entered at this stage

  • Eric Glyman
  • Carthona Capital
  • Redbus

Series A7 investors entered at this stage

  • Runway Growth Capital
  • Constellation Technology Ventures
  • Tao Capital Partners
  • Silicon Valley Bank
  • Cox Enterprises
  • Fontinalis Partners
  • Amity Ventures

Series B and later1 investor entered at this stage

  • Cox Automotive

Talent

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Employees mapped 378 incl. 6 AI specialists
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Key operators 9 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
13 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States66%
🇨🇦 Canada8.8%
🇹🇭 Thailand6.2%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.3%
🇨🇳 China3%
Top 5 of 13 shown
Web traffic by country
140K monthly visits
across markets
🏳️ Korea25.1%
🏳️ Republic of15.5%
🇺🇸 United States6.4%
🇳🇴 Norway5.9%
🇦🇺 Australia5.6%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$276M

182 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Ouster was the backer or acquirer, 2021–2026. 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

3 deals across Ouster's capital deployment.

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

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        Where Ouster 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.

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        Ouster's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        3 of 3 deals

        Market sentiment

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        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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