Lucenia's origin story begins at Amazon

Nick Knize, the Amazon engineer who created AWS OpenSearch, left his role to start Lucenia.
He then teamed up with Matt Joseph, an Amazon leader and Y Combinator alum.

Lucenia builds on the heritage of Apache Lucene

Like AWS OpenSearch and Elasticsearch, Lucenia is a search engine built on Apache Lucene. What makes Lucenia unique is the advanced cost controls it provides to customers to help them save on data storage and compute.

$2M

Initial funding

7

Employees

2024

Year founded

We're partnered with Open Core Ventures

Our Open Charter

Through the OCV Public Benefit Company Charter, Lucenia is legally committed to:

  • Maintain an open source platform

  • Protect existing open source code

  • Release testing frameworks

  • Avoid limiting open source projects

  • Distinguish proprietary vs open source code

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Meet the team

Nick Knize, PhD

Co-founder & CTO

Matt Joseph, JD/MBA

Co-Founder & CEO

Allison Richardet

Senior Software engineer

Wes Richardet

Senior Software Engineer

Dalton Boggs

Software engineer

Maria Carrero

Content Marketer

Jarolin Vargas

Software engineer

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