βΒ $36.1 Million market cap Β· β98.6% from peak
The rise & fall
6 moments Β· 1993β2025
The key moments, with employee sentiment along the way.
1993
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1993
Founded in the Seattle suburbs
Laser beam-scanning technology hunting for its market β decades before anyone said 'lidar'.
Wikipedia
2021
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2021
The peak: a $2.5B meme-stock spike$2.5B
Retail traders pile into the lidar story and briefly push the decades-old laser company to roughly $2.5B.
stockanalysis.com
2021
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2021
Slips out of the club
The meme tide goes out as fast as it came in, and automotive lidar wins stay scarce.
stockanalysis.com
2022β25
2022β25
Waiting on a lidar market
Automotive adoption lags across the industry and the market cap grinds down to about a tenth of the peak.
stockanalysis.com
2021β25
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From the inside Β· Glassdoor reviews, 2021β25
Glassdoor reviews described management repeatedly shifting project focus β several engineers said priorities changed so often that teams had to restart work β and, by 2024-25, the strain of still trying to commercialize the technology after two decades.
Today
Today
Still in the club β and still trading
Live Β· MVIS Β· NasdaqCMas of 2026-10-23
$1.18β² 4.42% todayβ $36.1M cap Β· β98.6% from peak
π¬ entries paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor β; dated facts carry their source.
How it happened
MicroVision is a US developer of lidar and laser-scanning technology for automotive and other applications. Its market capitalization spiked above $1B β to roughly $2.5B β during the 2021 meme-stock era on retail enthusiasm. As that speculative interest faded and automotive lidar adoption lagged, its valuation slid to about $0.22B by 2026, down roughly 91% from the peak.
