US-Bulgarian LucidLink raises a $20M Series B to solve remote collaboration
May 2022, The RecursiveLucidLink, the US-Bulgarian cloud storage startup that connects creative teams around the world, announced the closing of a $20M Series B round.
LucidLink, the US-Bulgarian cloud storage startup that connects creative teams around the world, announced the closing of a $20M Series B round.
The latest funding comes after a year of tremendous success for LucidLink that includes sustained 12% month-over-month growth resulting in over 400% revenue increase, 154% net customer retention and a doubling of its workforce.
LucidLink, a platform that allows companies such as Netflix, Nickelodeon and Shell to stream data directly from the cloud, has raised $20 million in a series A round of funding.
Almost a year to the day after its $12 million A-round, LucidLink, which presents public cloud object storage as local files, has taken $20 million in B-round funding.
The new capital infusion was led by Headline’s Global Growth strategy in collaboration with existing investors Baseline Ventures and Bright Cap Ventures and new investor, Top Tier Capital Partners.
LucidLink has revealed that it has now raised $20 million from investors in a Series B funding round.
Via LucidLink, editors had secure remote access to the media and projects, and could share timelines and assets as needed.
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We brought in LucidLink to deliver true editing in the cloud. It was our first time working with LucidLink and we really enjoyed it.
LucidLink was named a Cloud Computing and Storage Category Winner in the 2022 NAB Show Product of the Year Awards.
While LucidLink has customers in many different businesses and disciplines they have a firm commitment to media production as evidenced by their booth and how busy it was every time I wandered by.
The awards recognise the most significant and promising new products and technologies exhibited for the first time at the 2022 NAB Show.
Awards honor breakthrough products from 2022 NAB Show.
LucidLink, an innovative SaaS solution connecting creative teams around the world, today announced CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named the company to its second annual Storage 100 list in the Data Management category. The Storage 100 honors best-in-class storage vendors that provide innovative products and services to the IT channel.
LucidLink, whose Filespaces software presents public cloud object storage as a local filer, has launched Filespaces v2.0.
LucidLink is one of the 20 Coolest Data Management Companies in CRN’s 2022 Storage 100.
LucidLink, along with AWS and Quantum, is one of the technologies behind Acorn – a cloud-based media workflow and management platform for creative team collaboration introduced by our partner CHESA.
In his new role, Watson will be responsible for overseeing the growth and expansion of European operations, as well as the accelerated adoption of LucidLink within the media and entertainment industry.
A new kind of cloud-computing video-editing software called LucidLink has exploded during the pandemic, because it enables production teams to work from anywhere. WebMD says this is the future of their business.
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With its 300% growth, LucidLink is listed as one of the fastest growing storage companies.
Installed and in use since last autumn, eacs migrated virtually all of Emperor’s desktop publishing applications and practices to the cloud using LucidLink as the bedrock connectivity.
Reimagining the use of object storage for modern cloud-computing environments by transforming the cloud into a local storage tier.
A new software for the cloud-centric, remote-work era lets collaborators easily edit a video at the same time, wherever they are. A partnership between LucidLink, IBM, and Adobe made it possible.
LucidLink Corp. announced several leadership appointments of storage and enterprise technology executives to support its growth.
LucidLink, whose FileSpaces software presents public cloud object storage as a local filer, has hired Umesh Maheshwari as chief scientist, Joel Davis as VP of global sales and Adam Kranitz as VP of marketing.
With LucidLink Filespaces and Aviwest’s bonded cellular solution, broadcasters can capture camera feeds, deliver data to the cloud, and gain global access to the same file, with real-time collaboration from anywhere.
Together, Telestream Lightspeed Live Capture and LucidLink Filespaces provide real-time cloud ingest support, ideal for live news, and sports media productions.
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Advancements in this industry — courtesy of rising data storage startups — is the reason why it still continues to grow. We’ve rounded up the best companies from this space that are worth keeping an eye on in 2021.
Remote editing is here to stay even after the pandemic ends and the media and entertainment industry is addressing this and other challenges with new technologies and tools.
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LucidLink focuses on globally, instantly accessible data with one particularity-data is streamed as it is read. Streaming makes the solution especially well-suited for industries and use cases that rely on remote access to massive, multi-terabyte files, such as the M&E industry.
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US-based cloud storage startup LucidLink announced a $12M Series A round, led by global VC firm Headline and with Adobe as a key investor.
Cloud file technology firm LucidLink has closed a $12 million round of Series A funding, led by global venture capital firm Headline, and included a strategic investment from Adobe, as well as participation from Baseline Ventures and BrightCap Ventures.
LucidLink aims to change that with a universal distributed file system that streams data from cloud object storage. It purpose-built to integrate with object storage through high latency environments and address the source of the challenge, not the symptom.
LucidLink, Corp. raised $12 million in series A funding to support accelerated growth and continue to provide a market-leading customer experience.
LucidLink, whose FileSpaces software presents public cloud object storage as a local filer, has impressed venture capitalists enough to get a $12m A-round of funding.
The new round, which brings total funding in LucidLink to about $20 million, is less about developing the technology and more about developing new business.
Cloud storage startup LucidLink today announced it has raised $12 million in a series A funding round led by Headline, with participation from Baseline Ventures, Bright Cap Ventures, and Adobe.
LucidLink’s ability to securely stream cloud data at NAS speeds allows them to offer a unique service that cuts into the $20-billion NAS market.
In this article, we quickly overview the cloud NAS concept and the LucidLink Filespaces solution.
LucidLink was selected for its perseverance in pushing the boundaries of innovation through cutting-edge technology, and strategic partnerships.
Postlab Drive is a collaboration with LucidLink and uses a lot of LucidLink technology. It takes everything great about the LucidLink cloud-based storage and packages it into a tool that is more targeted to post-production.
This solution is being designed to meet the need for increasing storage demands and addresses the lack of predictability inherent with egress fees.
LucidLink recently announced that it was collaborating with IBM to bundle IBM Cloud open hybrid cloud storage offerings with LucidLink Filespaces. The IBM/LucidLink partnership allows LucidLink customers cloud-based egress pricing 60% below LucidLink’s previous fees and often below organization’s current negotiated rates with public cloud vendors.
LucidLink drew especially high scores from TechTarget’s judges for ease of integration and performance, with no clear weak spots.
Four-year old cloud NAS vendor LucidLink once again captured gold in the Cloud Storage category, this time with v1.24 of its Filespaces SaaS file system.
LucidLink announced that its Filespaces will be available as a turnkey solution on IBM Cloud Storage offerings. The two companies state that this collaboration offers a cloud-native file system that will enable users to access data consolidated in the cloud, like a local drive.
File startup LucidLink has coupled its Filespaces NAS software with IBM Cloud Object Storage, a further sign that cloud-native file services have reached maturity.
The IBM COS LucidLink bundle is designed for applications that require fast file-protocol access to massive datasets.
Using LucidLink is as simple as just installing the software and setting up and account for access and billing. That local software installed is the interface between your system and the cloud.
LucidLink is one of the finalists in the Cloud Storage category of the 2020 Products of the Year competition.
Pair are launching a video-oriented cloud shared storage system.
This paper, which includes LucidLink, proposes Global File System technologies as a potential solution for the challenges IT organizations may face in a post-Covid world.
The partnership between LucidLink & Wasabi means that customers no longer have to choose between the attractive cost and convenience of cloud storage and the performance of NAS.
LucidLink, which supplies accelerated cloud-native file access software, is partnering with Adobe Premiere Pro so its users can edit projects directly from the cloud.
LucidLink, an innovator in cloud file services, announced its collaboration with Adobe and its industry-leading software, Adobe Premiere Pro. LucidLink Filespaces is a cloud-native file service that allows Adobe Premiere Pro users to edit projects directly from the cloud.
LucidLink helps businesses overcome latency challenges in accessing files over distances with a file streaming service that allows cloud storage to be used as if it is local storage.
LucidLink announced a Cloud NAS that embeds into any OS as a file system and presents everything as if it is a local file with the client handling all encryption, data compression, pre-fetching and caching with the cloud object store treated as an infinitely scalable block device.
LucidLink develops a distributed file system called Filespaces that makes S3-compatible object stores look and function like a fast local file system.
LucidLink has a new bundled file service that lets customers use AWS S3 object storage with its Filespaces technology to speed up access to production data they keep in the cloud.
Users streaming data from AWS can save egress charges by storing and streaming the data using LucidLink’s Filespaces bundled with AWS S3 storage.
LucidLink is included in the cloud-based solutions for remote editing section.
LucidLink is providing 50% to all new users needing support during COVID-19 outbreak.
LucidLink has cut the capacity fee in half from $20/TiB to $10/TiB per month, and has eliminated the connected device / per user fee.
LucidLink’s solution is end-to-end encrypted and starts immediately when the writing starts, with the end user the only one having the encryption key.
Gold medalist LucidLink, a startup with offices in California, Bulgaria and Germany, impressed judges with its new Filespaces cloud file service that can accelerate access to data in globally distributed cloud object stores.
Startup LucidLink garnered gold with its Filespaces 1.0 cloud service that targets organizations requiring remote access to large and dense data sets by speeding up access to data in globally distributed cloud object stores.
LucidLink is partnering video management software supplier Milestone Systems to offer immediate and concurrent access to video surveillance in the cloud.
LucidLink’s Filespaces is a cloud-native file service software that tackles the challenge of accessing files over distance.
LucidLink, has combined its technology with Cloudian to provide a high performance object storage system for enterprises.
To deliver file access for distributed workloads making applications cloud-ready
Cloud storage is growing fast as companies look to take advantage of low cost and flexible storage options for terabytes and petabytes of data. But for all the convenience of cloud storage, sometimes it’s just better when data is closer.
Lucidlink uses Filespaces to manipulate large object files in the cloud from distributed locations without completely downloading or compromising security.
With its cloud-native file system, Lucidlink provides access to object data stored in the cloud. The technology is now also available in EMEA.
Analysis: LucidLink announced its Filespaces cloud file service product provides on-premises applications with instant access to large data sets over long distances, without consuming local storage. That got Blocks & Files attention; instant access to TBs and PBs of data over long distances?
LucidLink brings Filespaces a new cloud file service to the market and thereby addresses distributed workloads with remote access to data volume down to the PByte area.
Cloud file service for distributed workloads leveraging S3 compatible back-end
Enterprise file sync and sharing (EFSS) has been around for years.
LucidLink supplier of technologies for cloud file services, has announced the availability of Filespace, a cloud file service for distributed workloads with remote access to large files or terabytes to petabytes of data.
US startup LucidLink has found a way to manipulate data directly on public cloud object stores. The tedious downloading and uploading of files at each processing step would have an end to it.
On the occasion of the recent IT Press Tour, LeMagIT was able to discover the storage solution of LucidLink, a start-up founded by former employees of Datacore and whose objective is to enable the use of cloud object storage as support advanced file services.
Analysis You can’t store files in Amazon’s public cloud, access them on-premises, and expect local disk access performance.
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SaaS offering, no hardware or IT support required
End-to-end security encryption
Works with any object storage
Instant on-demand file access from anywhere
Works with any OS