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title: "Luminar Technologies: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Luminar Technologies Inc. was an American technology company that developed vision-based lidar and machine perception technologies, primarily for self-driving cars."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-luminar-technologies
type: Organization
wikidata: Q106240666
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminar_Technologies
website: https://www.luminartech.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# Luminar Technologies

> Luminar Technologies Inc. was an American technology company that developed vision-based lidar and machine perception technologies, primarily for self-driving cars.

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## Facts

- Category: Autonomous vehicles
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2011-01-01
- Headquarters: Orlando
- Status: public
- Website: https://www.luminartech.com/
- Also known as: Luminar, Gores Metropoulos, Gores Metropoulos, Inc., Luminar Technologies, Inc.
- Industries: automotive industry

## Accounts

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luminar_technologies

## Key people

- Austin Russell, founder (American businessperson)
- Austin Russell, chief executive (American businessperson)

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2020-09-08: Form D, USD 170 million sold of a USD 200 million offering, 84 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1781531/000178153120000001/))
- 2019-07-11: Form D, USD 87.3 million sold of a USD 120 million offering, 23 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1781531/000178153119000001/))

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Luminar Technologies, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-luminar-technologies#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106240666, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminar_Technologies
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001781531

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