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May 13 , 2021 LUMINAR Luminar Provides Business Update and First Quarter Results PALO ALTO , Calif .-- ( BUSINESS WIRE ) -- Luminar Technologies , Inc. ( " Luminar " or the “ Company ” ) ( NASDAQ : LAZR ) , the global leader in automotive lidar hardware and software technology , today announced a quarterly business update and financials for the first quarter ended March 31 , 2021 . " We've remained relentlessly focused on execution , hitting our key product , commercial , production and financial targets so far . This puts Luminar on track to meet or beat our 2021 company - level milestones from the beginning of the year , as we continue to extend our technology , product , and market leadership positions . " - Austin Russell , Founder & CEO Execution : Product , Industrialization , and Series Production Luminar continues to scale its series production capabilities . Today , Luminar officially announced its manufacturing partners Celestica and Fabrinet , while the first Iris units were produced on Luminar's automated line in Celestica's automotive - certified facility in Monterrey , Mexico . Luminar also continues to advance validation of Iris and development of its Sentinel software as it moves up and beyond the foundation of lidar , reinforcing the Company's transition to a system - level autonomous vehicle company . Following the introduction of Sentinel last quarter , Luminar kicked off the next phase of its software development through its partnership with Zenseact . Iris lidar data has been collected to train and optimize the performance of Luminar's perception software , and Luminar received the green light from German authorities to proceed with Sentinel full - stack solution development and testing on public German roads . Customer Adoption : Commercial Wins from the Ground to the Sky Since the 2020 year - end business update less than two months ago in March , where Luminar announced SAIC and detailed its new partnership with Zensact , Luminar achieved commercial wins with two new customers : • Airbus UpNext : Airbus SE's subsidiary UpNext - which was created to give future flight technologies a development fast - track by building , evaluating , maturing and validating new products and services that encompass radical technological breakthroughs – is integrating Luminar's lidar technology into its Vertex platform to enable safe , autonomous flight . This partnership marks Luminar's first foray into the nearly $ 1 trillion aviation industry and is aimed at increasing air safety and enabling autonomous operation with automatic obstacle detection . - • Pony.ai : Luminar's Iris will be seamlessly integrated into Pony.ai's next - generation