On: Luminar to go public in $3.4B merger

[edoceo]

Good news for Peter T, could this be a way for his funds to test the water before palantir?

[svbanker → edoceo]

This makes no sense. The fellowship doesn’t take equity. And its not like he has control over what Luminar does. Also, Luminar went public through a SPAC and Palantir is going to be a Direct Listing so one doing well wouldn’t say anything about the investor appetite for the other

[kraavi → svbanker]

The SPAC poured $400m and there is another $170m PIPE, which also includes Peter Thiel [1]

Peter Thiel was a current investor in Luminar [2]

[1] https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN25K1BX

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/luminar-technologies...