As the digital pioneer in a historically analog industry, Ouster is taking lidar beyond autonomous vehicles and into much larger and rapidly growing markets spanning industrial automation, smart infrastructure, robotics, and more.
Luminar Technologies More Than Doubles Post SPAC Merger
Peter Thiel-backed Luminar Technologies Inc. briefly touched an all-time high within days of emerging as a standalone company as investor excitement over developers of laser-sensors that enable autonomous driving (lidar) ramped up.
Beverly Hills’ lidar sensor maker Luminar Technologies snowballs 30% in Nasdaq debut
Shares’ prices of Luminar Technologies Inc., the Beverly Hills, California-headquartered Lidar-sensor manufacturer for autonomous driving technology, witnessed an exploding rally at its Nasdaq-debut on Thursday.
Aeva, which makes lidar sensors for autonomous cars, plans to go public via SPAC merger
A hot startup called Aeva Inc. that develops lidar-based technology for autonomous vehicles, said today it’s planning to go public in a “blank check” merger that will value it at over $2.1 billion.
Driverless Tech Is Here with the Gores Metropoulos SPAC
By now, I’m sure at least some of you are getting quite tired hearing about special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs. Seemingly every other market debut is a SPAC, essentially a backdoor way of doing an initial public offering. Nevertheless, Gores Metropoulos (NASDAQ:GMHI) stock has attracted much attention and for good reason.