Details

Last Funding Type

Corporate Round

Last Funding Money Raised

$150M

Industries

3D Technology,Autonomous Vehicles,Electronics,Robotics,Sensor

Founded date

Jan 1, 1983

Number Of Employee

251 - 500

Operating Status

Active

Stock Symbol

nasdaq:VLDR

Legal Name

Velodyne Lidar, Inc.

Velodyne Lidar, the first public pure-play lidar company, is an industry leader in lidar globally. Their innovation, technology scope and manufacturing capabilities make them world-class in the lidar industry. Under the leadership of CEO Anand Gopalan, the company’s key objective is to transform lives through safe mobility and smart communities with high performance lidar solutions. The mission of Velodyne Lidar is that their solutions will provide new mobility choices through universally accessible transformation, while providing security, efficiency and sustainability in smart cities.

One of the many aspects that makes Velodyne Lidar stand out in the industry is their revolutionary software and hardware solutions meet the needs of a broad range of industries. These include advanced driver-assistance systems, autonomous vehicles, robotics, smart cities, security, delivery, industrial and more. For instance, their solutions power autonomous tractors to create ease and efficiency in airport logistics and enable autonomous robots to perform dirty and often dangerous jobs including rescue missions, construction support, enhanced agriculture processes and more.

Velodyne Lidar has acquired 2 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Mapper.ai on Jul 23, 2019. They acquired Mapper.ai for 0.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Jul 23, 2019 Mapper.ai	Analytics	acquisition	—	Detail
Oct 4, 2022 Bluecity.ai	Artificial Intelligence	acquisition	—	Detail