Type Private Founded 2007 | Area served AmericasEMEAAPAC Number of employees 75 | |
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Industry Enterprise searchInternet searchInformation technologyInformation accessOpen source software Key people Will Hayes (CEO)Grant Ingersoll (CTO)Reade Frank (CFO)Keith Messick (CMO)Gerald Kanapathy (VP, Products)Erik Hatcher (Founding Technical Team) Products Search EnginesSupport, Consulting and Training around Apache Lucene and Apache SolrLucidworks Fusion Search Platform Headquarters Redwood City, California, United States Motto Search is the ultimate killer app. Profiles | ||
Webinar say hello to lucidworks fusion
Lucidworks 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. 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. In November 2015, Lucidworks closed a $21 million Series D round with Allegis Capital, and existing investors Shasta Ventures and Granite Ventures participating.
Contents
- Webinar say hello to lucidworks fusion
- An introduction to lucidworks a google search appliance replacement
- Business model
- Awards
- References
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, 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.
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.
An introduction to lucidworks a google search appliance replacement
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.