Luminate, Inc. is the worldwide leader in making images interactive serving more than 150 million users each month and 30 billion image views per year. Founded in 2008, with the vision to make every image on the web interactive, Luminate offers the world's first platform for image applications. Developed by technologists from Netscape and LiveOps, Luminate's platform combines Internet and crowdsourcing technology to deliver the optimal content relevant to online images. Luminate is a private company funded by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners and Shasta Ventures, with headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
Who We Are
- What Luminate Does: We transform static images into interactive content.
- How We Do It: With our "first-of-a-kind" platform for image apps that allows consumers to mouse over an image and explore layers of informational content.
- Reach: Top 25 Quantcast U.S. Network Rank. The Luminate network is comprised of leading publisher sites reaching 150 million unique visitors a month.
- Image Views: Luminate enables images at a rate of 30 billion per year.
- Investors: August Capital, CMEA Captial, Google Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners and Shasta Ventures.
Luminate reunites a veteran team with deep Silicon Valley roots that pioneered leading Internet and crowdsourcing technologies. In the late 90s, the team worked together at Netscape where Bob Lisbonne served as Senior Vice President and GM of the Browser Division, and the rest of Luminate's core team architected key elements of Netscape's trailblazing web products.
Later, Luminate CTO James Everingham led the same group of engineers as CTO of LiveOps, where they developed world class expertise in crowdsourcing while building the industry's biggest virtual call center platform using work at home agents. Luminate's technologists now apply their unique background in both Internet and crowdsourcing to the trillions of images on the web today.
