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Ouster
High-performance lidar sensors for automotive, robotics, mapping and other applications
At a glance
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Listing
- Public via SPAC 2021
- Sector
- Transportation
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Ouster.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed3 investors entered at this stage
- EGEric Glyman
- CCCarthona Capital
- RERedbus
Series A7 investors entered at this stage
- RCRunway Growth Capital
- CVConstellation Technology Ventures
- TPTao Capital Partners
Silicon Valley Bank- CECox Enterprises
- FPFontinalis Partners
- AVAmity Ventures
Series B and later1 investor entered at this stage
- CACox Automotive
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Global footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
182 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
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.
3 deals across Ouster's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Ouster on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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