Lucidworks
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| Private | |
| Industry | Enterprise search Internet search Information technology Information access Open source software |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
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Area served
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Americas EMEA APAC |
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Key people
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Will Hayes (CEO) Grant Ingersoll (CTO) Reade Frank (CFO) Keith Messick (CMO) Gerald Kanapathy (VP, Products) Erik Hatcher (Founding Technical Team) |
| Products | Search Engines Support, Consulting and Training around Apache Lucene and Apache Solr Lucidworks Fusion Search Platform |
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Number of employees
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75+ |
| Slogan | Search is the ultimate killer app. |
| Website | http://www.lucidworks.com |
Lucidworks (formerly known as Lucid Imagination) is a San Francisco, California-based enterprise search technology company offering an application development platform, commercial support, consulting, training and value-add software for open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr. Lucidworks is a private company founded as Lucid Imagination in 2007 and publicly launched on January 26, 2009. The company was renamed to Lucidworks on August 8, 2012.[1] The company received Series A funding from Granite Ventures and Walden International in Sept 2008; In-Q-Tel is a strategic investor. In August 2014, Lucidworks closed an $8 million Series C round with Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures and Walden International participating.[2] In November 2015, Lucidworks closed a $21 million Series D round with Allegis Capital, and existing investors Shasta Ventures and Granite Ventures participating.[3]
The company follows a Professional Open Source model to target organizations evaluating or already using the Apache Lucene/Solr open source search platform for their search applications. The company also offers several free, certified distributions of Lucene and Solr, which include additional utilities, bug fixes, and performance enhancements. Apache Lucene and Solr originally established a following without commercial support; however, as the market adoption for commercially supported open source grows,[4][5] enterprise search application developers have sought similar models for these applications as well. Lucidworks is the primary commercial steward for the Solr project employing one-third of the project's committers and contributing 70% of the code in addition to producing the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference.[6]
The Lucidworks founding technical team consisted of Marc Krellenstein, a veteran in the enterprise search industry and several key contributors and committers to the Lucene project, Grant Ingersoll, Erik Hatcher, and Yonik Seeley, in addition to advisor Doug Cutting.
Business model
Lucidworks partly operates on a professional open-source business model based on open code, development within a community, professional quality assurance, and subscription-based customer support. They produce open-source code, so more programmers can make further adaptations and improvements.
Lucidworks sells subscriptions for the support, training, and integration services that help customers in using open-source software. Customers can buy support in packages according to the level of support needed.
On September 18, 2014, Lucidworks released Lucidworks Fusion, a platform for building enterprise search applications with Apache Lucene/Solr.[7][8]
Awards
- Finalist for the 2010 Red Herring 100 North America Award[9]
- Lucid Imagination Congratulates Apache Solr on InfoWorld Bossie Award Win[10]
References
- Notes
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External links
- Corporate website
- Lucidworks Fusion Makes Solr Easy
- Apache Lucene website
- Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition Blog by Grant Ingersoll, member of founding technical team
- Solr 'n Stuff Blog by Yonik Seeley, member of founding technical team
- Lucid aims to be top open source enterprise search player - Paula Rooney, ZDNet, January 25, 2009
- Startup Provides Commercial Support for Lucene-based Search – Chris Kanaracus, IDG News, January 26, 2009
- Getting Lucene Down to Business With Lucid Imagination - Jack Germain, LinuxInsider, February 20, 2009
- Steven Arnold Q&A with Marc Krellenstein, Lucid Imagination co-founder and CTO March 17, 2009
