VC, Search, Software
Lucid Imagination Raises $6 Million for Open Source Search Support
Wade Roush 12/10/08
Lucid Imagination, a startup in Newton Highlands, MA, that specializes in support and services for the open-source search technologies Lucene and Solr, has collected $6 million out of a $7.5 million Series A financing round, according to a report yesterday in Private Equity Hub.
Lucid’s Series A investors include Granite Ventures and Walden International, both of which are headquartered in San Francisco.
Lucene is an open source-search library originally developed by Yahoo software engineer Doug Cutting, and Solr is an open-source search server program. Both are managed by the Apache Software Foundation. Lucid Imagination provides training, consulting, and additional software around the technologies—just as Red Hat does for the open-source Linux operating system and as Andover, MA-based Acquia does for the open-source Drupal content management system.
Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com, call him at (617) 252-7323, or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/wroush.
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