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Ouster

Transportation · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2015 · Public via SPAC 2021

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

Valuation $2.47B
Revenue $220M

Talent graph

Ouster's talent

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Employees mapped 378 incl. 6 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 9 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia Hidden — book a demo alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

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
Constellation Technology Ventures
Tao Capital Partners
Silicon Valley Bank
Cox Enterprises
Fontinalis Partners
Amity Ventures
Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage
Cox Automotive

Global footprint

Where Ouster has talent and traffic

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

Patent intelligence

$276M patent portfolio · 182 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$276M
11.2% of market cap · 2.1× larger than top peer Veoneer ($131M)
182 active patent families
Where Ouster innovates Field of viewLidarLight detectionLight signalMaterials science

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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