search information technology information access open source software founded 2007 headquarters san francisco california united states area served americas emea apac 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 engines support consulting and training around apache lucene and apache solr lucidworks fusion search platform number of employees 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 . contents 1 business model 2 awards 3 references 4 external links business model edit 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 edit finalist for the 2010 red herring 100 north america award 9 lucid imagination congratulates apache solr on infoworld bossie award win 10 references edit notes what happened to lucid imagination sec form d . august 31 2014 . lucidworks announces 21 million in series d funding . november 18 2015 . montalbano elizabeth february 16 2006 . osbc professional open source grows up . infoworld . assay matt april 20 2009 . open source gains while proprietary software declines . cnet news . assay matt april 20 2009 . pandodaily http pando.com 2014 09 10 how disgruntled ex employees and bad reporting hung lucidworks out to dry . missing or empty title help carney michael september 18 2014 . open source gains while proprietary software declines . lucidworks debuts new fusion platform offers modularized personalized search for the enterprise . carney michael september 10 2014 . under new ceo lucidworks aims to redefine search and itself http www.datanami.com 2014 09 18 new ceo lucidworks aims redefine search . missing or empty title help finalist for the 2010 red herring 100 north america award lucid imagination congratulates apache solr on infoworld bossie award win 1 external links edit 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 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lucidworks & oldid 735953006 categories american companies established in 2007technology companies established in 2007hidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 24 august 2016 at 05 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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