Lucid Imagination Raises $10 Million For Apache Search Technology
Leena Rao
Mar 10, 2010

Lucid Imagination, the startup that commercially distributes the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Shasta Ventures with Granite Ventures and Walden International participating in the round. This brings the company’s total funding to $16 million.

Lucid powers enterprise search technologies using the open source Lucene/Solr search. Customers include Zappos, Nike and Netflix. The new funding will be used to accelerate the adoption of Lucene/Solr search technology.

Launched in 2009, Lucid is seeing revenue in the “millions,” and counts Google’s enterprise search product as a direct competitor.

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  • http://beerpla.net Artem Russakovskii

    This is great news – congrats to Yonik (co-founder of both Solr and Lucid) and other employees!

    Solr is vastly superior to Sphinx in my opinion, the team behind it was very helpful and quick to act on the reported bugs, and in general left a really good impression on me.

    Solr hasn’t crashed once since deployment to production about 6 months ago.

    Finally, see “Solr VS Sphinx: Fight” for some comparison: http://beerpla.net/2009/09/03/comparison-between-solr-and-sphinx-search-servers-solr-vs-sphinx-fight/

  • imamirkhan

    After indexing over a million records, I realised that sphinx is far more faster compared to Lucene, didnt time it but could feel the difference without it. If I had that money it would have definitely gone to Sphinx.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=594153546 Clint Pee

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  • Mike B.

    Glad to see Lucid doing so well. Doug Cutting’s Lucene is one of the finest open source technologies I’ve ever dealt with and has allowed me to build several web applications that have literally improved my quality of life and that of my customers.

  • http://www.funadvice.com/my/thedude Jeremy Goodrich

    What’s with the 90% spam and off topic comments?

    *anyway* we’re about to do a release with solr / lucine built in…we’ve used tsearch, swish-e, and others over the last five years, but this one is the best, by a mile.

    Congrats to the team on getting the funding and we hope your product gets widespread adoption (as we’re big fans, clearly).

  • http://fool.com TMFBritcodeftw

    We recently switched from using Google to a Solr powered search at the Motley Fool and we’ve been really impressed with it’s performance and flexibility. A major win for us and our members.

  • Ilan Ben Menachem

    Glad to see Lucid doing so well.

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