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Velodyne LiDAR

Transportation · San Jose, United States · Founded 2007 Unicorn

Developer, manufacturer and supplier of high performance LiDAR sensors

Valuation

$262M

Market cap · 2026

Revenue

$173M

Latest reported FY

Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Investors

3 investors on Velodyne LiDAR's cap table

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Series A 2 investors entered at this stage

Ford Motor

Baidu

Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage

Hyundai Mobis

Global footprint

Where Velodyne LiDAR has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

🇺🇸 United States · San Jose HQ

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Web traffic by country

400 monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States100%

Top 1 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$88M patent portfolio · 110 active families

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

Where Velodyne LiDAR concentrates vs peers

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Velodyne LiDAR

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