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Ouster

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Ouster Inc.Ouster Lidar

American technology company designing and producing digital 3D lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles, robotics, industrial, mapping, and smart infrastructure applications.

Founded2015United States
HQSan FranciscoUnited States
Total funding$87000B2 · 2017–2019
01 · About

Ouster

Founded 2015 · San Francisco, United States

Ouster, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, designing and producing high-resolution digital 3D lidar sensors. Founded in 2015 by Angus Pacala and Mark Frichtl, the company went public on the NYSE in March 2021 through a merger with Colonnade Acquisition (a SPAC), and later listed on Nasdaq under the ticker OUST. In February 2023, Ouster completed an all-stock merger with Velodyne Lidar, with the combined company retaining the Ouster name. Its sensors are used in autonomous vehicles, robotics, drones, mapping, defense systems, and smart-infrastructure applications. Main product lines include the OS0, OS1, OS2 families and the latest REV8 generation (OS1 Max, OS1, OS0, OSDome).

  • Angus Pacala

    Co-founder & CEO

  • Mark Frichtl

    Co-founder & CTO

03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ San Francisco
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2015 · Funding round
2015founded
$87Mtotal funding
Funding roundlatest round
Publiclisted
activestatus
$87M
total funding
2 · 2017–2019
Series ADecember 2017Cox Enterprises
$27M
Funding roundMarch 2019Runway Growth Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Cox Enterprises, Constellation Tech Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Carthona Capital
$60M
05 · Portfolio

Products & solutions

4 components
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

2 classification · 8 external links

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