Luminar

About

Luminar is an autonomous vehicle and lidar technology company for passenger cars, commercial trucking and robo-taxi.

Orlando,Florida,United States
251 - 500
https://www.luminartech.com/

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Series Unknown
Last Funding Money Raised: $100M
Industries: Automotive,Autonomous Vehicles,Sensor,Software
Founded date: Jan 1, 2012
Number Of Employee: 251 - 500
Operating Status: Active
Stock Symbol: nasdaq:LAZR
Legal Name: Luminar Technologies, Inc.

Luminar is a global automotive technology company ushering in a new era of vehicle safety and autonomy. For the past decade, Luminar has built an advanced hardware and software platform to enable its more than 50 industry partners, including the majority of global automotive OEMs. From Volvo Cars and Mercedes-Benz for consumer vehicles and Daimler Trucks for commercial trucks, to tech partners NVIDIA and Intel’s Mobileye, Luminar is poised to be the first automotive technology company to enable next-generation safety and autonomous capabilities for production vehicles. For more information please visit www.luminartech.com.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

12

$1.01B

Luminar has raised a total of $1.01B in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jan 20, 2022 from a Post-IPO Equity round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Jan 20, 2022	Post-IPO Equity	$20.25M	1	Mercedes Benz	—	Detail
Feb 3, 2021	Post-IPO Equity	$154M	—	—	—	Detail
Dec 3, 2020	IPO	—	—	—	—	Detail
Dec 2, 2020	Post-IPO Equity	$420M	—	—	—	Detail
Oct 30, 2020	Corporate Round	—	1	Daimler Trucks North America	—	Detail

Investments

Number of Investments

Number of Lead Investments

4

1

Luminar has made 4 investments. Their most recent investment was on May 26, 2022, when ECARX raised $45M.

Date Company Name	Round	Money Raised	Industry	Lead Investor
May 26, 2022 ECARX	Corporate Round	$45M	Automotive	Yes
Jul 10, 2020 Rivian	Private Equity（PE）	$2.50B	Automotive	—
Jan 21, 2020 Sono Motors	Equity Crowdfunding	€53.34M	Automotive	—
Feb 4, 2014 Datadog	Series B	$15M	Analytics	—

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

11

24

Luminar is funded by 24 investors. Mercedes Benz and Daimler Trucks North America are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Mercedes Benz	Yes	Post-IPO Equity
Daimler Trucks North America	Yes	Corporate Round
Alec Gores	Yes	Series Unknown
Crescent Cove Advisors	Yes	Series Unknown
Jill Woodman	Yes	Series Unknown
Moore Strategic Ventures	Yes	Series Unknown
Nicholas Woodman	Yes	Series Unknown
Peter Thiel	Yes	Series Unknown
Van Tuyl Group	Yes	Series Unknown
VectoIQ LLC	Yes	Series Unknown