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“Maker of laser lidar sensors that help self-driving cars see the world”
Forbes

Luminar

Pioneering the future of autonomous transportation.

NASDAQ: LAZR

Why We Invested

We first met Austin when he was 17 and living in a Hacker House in Portola Valley, and were immediately struck by his intelligence and conviction that most autonomous vehicle companies had overlooked LiDAR. Luminar provides safe autonomous transportation with long-range, high-res LiDAR with the goal of creating an uncrashable car. Luminar went public via SPAC in December 2020 (Nasdaq: LAZR).

AI
Pioneering the future of autonomous transportation.
Austin Russell & Jason Eichenholz
Co-Founders

“Everyone in venture talks about backing bold and transformative technology. They really don’t do it. They just make incremental bets with short time horizons. Rebecca is different. From Day 1 she was a believer and she understood the technology and what was needed.”

Headquarters
Palo Alto, CA
Year founded
2012
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