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Lucidum provides an asset discovery platform eliminating blind spots across an organization’s digital infrastructure, including cloud, security, and IT operations. The platform unifies disparate IT and security data, continuously discovering and identifying all managed and unmanaged assets. This delivers comprehensive visibility into the attack surface, enhancing security posture.
Co-founders Charles Feng and Joel Cherkis established Lucidum in 2019. Their experience at Splunk and Google revealed a critical need for universal asset visibility. They recognized organizations struggled to maintain complete oversight of their expanding, fragmented IT asset landscape, creating significant security and operational blind spots.
Enterprises utilize Lucidum to gain a holistic view of digital assets, identifying unknown devices and mitigating associated risks. The company’s vision centers on empowering organizations with complete asset visibility, transforming security and compliance management in complex digital environments. Lucidum aims to be a definitive source of truth for asset intelligence, facilitating proactive defense.
Lucidum has raised $19.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Lucidum has raised $19.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Lucidum is a cybersecurity technology company specializing in cyber asset attack surface management, using a machine learning-powered platform to discover and reveal unknown assets, users, and data across cloud, security, and IT operations.[1][2][5] It serves Fortune 500 companies and service providers facing compliance and cybersecurity challenges, solving the critical problem of blind spots in asset visibility by triangulating pre-existing data sources without agents or heavy scanning.[1][2] This enables secure management and transformation of attack surfaces, with reported benefits like SIEM cost savings of $150-300k and integration with over 500 connectors for rapid data unification.[4]
The platform stands out for its efficiency, completing data integration projects up to 75% faster while eliminating silos, delays, and inaccuracies, positioning Lucidum as a key player in asset discovery amid growing cloud complexity.[1][4]
Lucidum was founded in 2020 (with some sources noting 2021) and is headquartered in Cincinnati, California, though it maintains a presence in San Francisco.[1][2][5] Details on specific founders or their backgrounds are not detailed in available sources, but the company emerged to address the rising need for visibility into sprawling IT environments as cloud adoption accelerated post-2020.[1] Early traction came from its patent-pending machine learning approach, quickly attracting reliance from Fortune 500 enterprises and service providers seeking to uncover "unknown unknowns" in their attack surfaces.[1][5]
Lucidum rides the exploding demand for cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM), a trend fueled by hybrid cloud proliferation, ransomware surges, and regulatory pressures like GDPR and SEC cybersecurity rules.[1] Its timing aligns perfectly with post-pandemic IT sprawl, where organizations manage thousands of unseen assets—market forces like zero-trust architectures and AI-driven threats amplify the need for its blind-spot elimination.[1][2] By enabling MSPs, MSSPs, and IT teams to automate discovery and compliance (similar to competitors like Liongard or Concentric AI), Lucidum influences the ecosystem toward proactive security postures, reducing breach risks in sectors like finance and healthcare.[1]
Lucidum is poised for accelerated growth as CAASM matures into a multi-billion market, with AI enhancements likely expanding its platform to predictive threat modeling and automated remediation.[1][4] Trends like multi-cloud dominance and quantum-resistant security will shape its trajectory, potentially through partnerships or acquisitions by larger cybersecurity giants. Its influence could evolve from niche asset discovery to a foundational layer in enterprise security stacks, solidifying its role in taming data chaos for resilient operations—much like its "beard trimmer" for wild information overgrowth.[4]
Lucidum has raised $19.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Lucidum's investors include Point72 Ventures, Blu Venture Investors, CapitalG, Glenn Solomon, Notable Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Ameet Patel, Oren Yunger, Silicon Valley CISO Investments, GGV Capital.
Lucidum has raised $19.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $15.0M Series A in November 2021.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2021 | $15.0M Series A | Point72 Ventures | Blu Venture Investors, CapitalG, Glenn Solomon, Notable Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Ameet Patel, Oren Yunger, Silicon Valley CISO Investments |
| Oct 30, 2020 | $4.0M Seed | GGV Capital, Oren Yunger |