Lucidworks

Lucidworks develops search technology for companies that want to offer better search inside their websites and applications. Its work rests on Solr, an open source search engine.

The company says its staff include contributors and committers to that project, along with machine learning specialists.

What Lucidworks offers

• Fusion — a development platform for designing and running search applications at different scales.
• Cognitive search — search that uses machine learning to understand what users are looking for.
• Consumer-facing search — tools for shops, media and other public sites.
• Enterprise search — search over internal company content.
• Solr expertise — engineering knowledge of the open source engine underneath.

Who it works with

The company names Reddit, Red Hat, Moody's, Commvault and Verizon among organisations using its search products, covering both consumer and business applications.

Key facts

• Technology: built on Apache Solr
• Recognition: placed in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines
• Investors: Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, Walden International and others