Cepton
- 🦄Became a unicorn2021
- 📈Peak valuation$1.5 Billion ’21
- 💔Became a Unitard2022
- 💸Last valuation~$150M
The rise & fall
5 moments · 2016–2024The key moments.
How it happened
Cepton is a lidar maker for automotive and smart-infrastructure applications. It reached a roughly $1.5B valuation and went public via SPAC in early 2022. As lidar-sector enthusiasm collapsed, its shares fell sharply below $1B. Japanese auto-lighting firm Koito, a key partner and investor, took a majority stake, leaving Cepton a small-cap roughly 90% below its peak.
A small set of Glassdoor reviews was generally positive, with scattered notes on communication and job stability at the lidar maker.
Employee accounts paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor ↗. See our methodology.
Source: De-SPAC 2022
Founders
- Jun Yeco-founderNo public profile matched
Current roles as self-reported on LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-08-19. See our methodology.
Disclosed investors (3)
Historical funding participation; lists may be incomplete and do not establish current ownership or investor losses.
* Lead in a funding round · Crunchbase ↗ · 2026-10-13 · Methodology · Leaderboard
