Lumu continuously looks for signs of compromise in enterprise networks and surfaces details about compromised assets, when and how compromises occurred, and recommended responses. The product can review up to two years of network metadata, automate certain defense activities using customers' existing security tools, and is adaptable to a wide range of cybersecurity stacks. Its interface is designed for operators of varying technical skill so teams without senior analysts can respond in real time. Founder and CEO Ricardo Villadiego built the company after studying breach patterns; he previously served as IBM’s regional director for internet security systems in Latin America. Lumu plans to use new capital to grow its U.S. sales team, support its go-to-market strategy, and increase R&D investment. The company reported customer momentum with 881 live deployments as of September and 133% year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue. Lumu closed an $8M funding round to support growth and operations, bringing total funding to $15.5M. The company will use the proceeds for sales and marketing initiatives and to hire talent to amplify its cyber resilience message and build credibility with target audiences. Lumu pioneered the Continuous Compromise Assessment model, which enables organizations to measure and understand compromise continuously and reduce breach detection from months to minutes. The platform delivers actionable information about who was impacted, when incidents occurred, and how to respond before escalation. Lumu experienced hyper-growth in 2021 and 2022 and now has more than 3,100 organizations using its technology. The platform has analyzed more than 1 trillion metadata and detected more than 345 million adversarial contacts; the company is led by founder and CEO Ricardo Villadiego and is based in Miami, FL. Lumu provides a cloud-based service that collects and standardizes metadata from across networks—DNS queries, network traffic, proxy and firewall access logs, and spam filters—and applies AI to correlate threat intelligence and isolate confirmed points of compromise. The platform detects adversarial contacts and enables automated response actions to shut down compromised endpoints. Lumu launched in February 2020 and targets small to large corporations, selling to enterprise customers. The company reports 1,300 enterprise customers, has analyzed more than 55 billion metadata records, and detected over 11 million adversarial contacts. It has 35 full-time employees and plans to use recent funding to fuel growth in the United States. Founder Ricardo Villadiego emphasizes execution and scaling with the capital and talent support provided by investors.

Total raised

$46M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2023