Velodyne Lidar, Inc. provides smart, powerful lidar solutions for autonomous vehicles, driver assistance, delivery solutions, robotics, navigation and mapping. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California and currently employs 407 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2018-10-18. The firm is primarily engaged in providing real time three-dimensional (3D) vision for autonomous systems. Its product portfolio includes Surround View Lidar, Solid State Lidar, and Software. Its Surround View Lidar offers a range of products, such as Alpha Prime (VLS-128), Ultra Puck (VLP-32), Puck (VLP-16), Puck Hi-Res (VLP-16 Hi-Res), Puck LITE (VLP-16 LITE), and HDL-32E. Its Solid-State Lidar technology includes micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) solutions and provides products, such as Velarray M1600 and Velarray H800. The Software includes Vella Development Kit (VDK) and Intelligent Infrastructure Solution (IIS). Its software solutions include Vella, which is designed to offer a full software advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) solution built around lidar to provide safety and autonomy applications to vehicles that utilize a Velarray lidar. Its applications include drones, security, mobile robots, and mapping.

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