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title: "Velodyne Lidar: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Velodyne Lidar is a Silicon Valley–based lidar technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. It was spun off from Velodyne Acoustics in 2016."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-velodyne-lidar
type: Organization
wikidata: Q7919303
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velodyne_Lidar
website: http://www.velodynelidar.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Velodyne Lidar

> Velodyne Lidar is a Silicon Valley–based lidar technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. It was spun off from Velodyne Acoustics in 2016.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-velodyne-lidar

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1983-01-01
- Headquarters: San Jose
- Status: public
- Website: http://www.velodynelidar.com/
- Employees: 500
- Also known as: Velodyne
- Industries: intelligent transportation system, advanced driver-assistance system

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/velodynelidar
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/velodyne-lidar
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddm2Lpqjin-pVKlZovk46w
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VelodyneLidar
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/velodynelidar

## Key people

- David Hall, founder (American entrepreneur, engineer, and inventor)

## 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.

- 2020-10-14: Form D, USD 1.5 billion sold of a USD 1.5 billion offering, 51 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1745317/000110465920114988/))

## Revenue

- undated: USD 142.9 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 101.4 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 95.4 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 61.9 million (SEC filing)

## Products

- lidar

## Coverage on the Monitor

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

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7919303, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velodyne_Lidar
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001745317

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