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Ouster

Transportation · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2015 Unicorn

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

Valuation
$1.52B
Market cap · May/2026
Revenue
$169M
Latest reported FY

Investors

11 investors on Ouster's cap table

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

Seed 3 investors entered at this stage
Eric Glyman
Carthona Capital
Redbus
Series A 7 investors entered at this stage
Runway Growth Capital
Silicon Valley Bank
Tao Capital Partners
Amity Ventures
Constellation Technology Ventures
Fontinalis Partners
Cox Enterprises
Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage
Cox Automotive

Global footprint

Where Ouster has talent and traffic

AI talent share
1.7% of workforce is AI talent
(6 of 349 staff)
Core AI20.57%
Other AI41.15%
Non-AI workforce34398.28%
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
110K monthly visits
across markets
🏳️ Korea26.6%
🏳️ Republic of17.2%
🇺🇸 United States5.3%
🇮🇳 India5%
🇨🇦 Canada3.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$319M patent portfolio · 215 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$319M
21.0% of market cap · 2.5× smaller than top peer Indie Semiconductor ($809M)
215 active patent families
Where Ouster innovates Mechanical engineeringLidarField of viewLight detectionLight signal

Where Ouster concentrates vs peers

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

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

Capital deployed

Ouster's 3 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Ouster appeared as a 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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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        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.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        Ouster'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
        3 of 3 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Ouster

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