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title: "Ouster: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Ouster, Inc. is an American lidar technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ouster
type: Organization
wikidata: Q97574745
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouster_(company)
website: https://ouster.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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# Ouster

> Ouster, Inc. is an American lidar technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2015-01-01
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Status: public
- Website: https://ouster.com/
- Also known as: Ouster, Inc.

## 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.

- 2020-06-30: Form D, USD 20.9 million sold of a USD 60 million offering, 26 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1815095/000156761920012655/))

## Products

- lidar

## Coverage on the Monitor

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

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97574745, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouster_(company)
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001815095

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