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VCSS: Year in review + Valerie Shen of G2 Venture Partners | E1641

This Week in Startups

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Climate Tech Investments - Are You Going to Buy LIDAR?

Luminar is a company that makes LIDAR for autonomous vehicles. We talked to several dozen players in the industry and asked them, are you going to buy LIDAR? Everyone said yes. Luminar was the only one that was meeting the metrics that we had specifically heard from the auto ODMs and other more old school industrial players were what was needed to win.

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