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Velodyne LiDAR

Transportation · San Jose, United States · Founded 2007 Unicorn

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Valuation

$262M

Market cap · 2026

Revenue

$173M

Latest reported FY

Investors

3 investors on Velodyne LiDAR's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Tap any card for that investor's profile.

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage

Baidu

Ford Motor

Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage

Hyundai Mobis

Global footprint

Where Velodyne LiDAR has talent and traffic

Web traffic by country

400 monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States100%

Top 1 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$88M patent portfolio · 110 active families

Total estimated portfolio value via Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap), with quality scores compared against same-sector peers.

Estimated portfolio value

$88M

33.5% of market cap · 1.6× smaller than top peer Luminar ($137M)

110 active patent families

Where Velodyne LiDAR innovates LidarLight detectionMechanical engineeringReceiverLight signal

Above peer median on Legal, Market

Quality vs same-sector peers

Velodyne LiDAR on the five Patsnap quality dimensions

Velodyne LiDAR in orange. Same-sector peers are the top filers by total patent value. All scores 0–100; higher is stronger.

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Patent quality scores (0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap

Tech-focus vs peers

Where Velodyne LiDAR concentrates inside the peer cluster

Axes are the most-shared Patsnap topics across Velodyne LiDAR and its top peers. Each polygon's reach on an axis = how prominent that topic is in that company's portfolio (#1 topic = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0).

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Top-topic prominence (rank inverted, 0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap top-10 topics per company

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