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News
Technologies
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Products
People
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Offices
Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$95M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$75M
Series C · Nov 2023 · 2 yr ago
Team
86
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +41% in a year
Hiring now
5
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Headline
The money's age
Long since its last round
34 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
31/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 25 Launched Exclusive: LucidLink launches MCP server to give AI agents shared access to distributed files · SiliconANGLE Mar 23 Launched LucidLink Launches Connect to Extend Instant Access to Data Stores · StorageNewsletter 2025 Team of 86 was 61 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Oct 30, 2025 Launched LucidLink Unveils Frame.Io Integration And Expanded Mobile Capabilities · tvnewscheck.com Nov 20, 2023 Raised a round Series C $75M · led by Brighton Park Capital · PRNewswire May 17, 2022 Raised a round Series B $20M · PRNewswire 2016 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.75%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 16 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series C Nov 2023 $75M Brighton Park Capital lead PRNewswire
Series B May 2022 $20M — PRNewswire
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Overview

LucidLink is a cloud file streaming and data management technology enterprise headquartered in San Francisco, California, with major R&D operations in Sofia, Bulgaria. Founded in 2016 by Peter Thompson and George Dochev, the venture-backed firm has raised over $90 million from investors including Bright Pixel Capital, Headline, and Baseline Ventures.

News

News Channel Insider 1 month ago
LucidLink MSP Program Targets Media Service Providers
LucidLink launched an MSP program for media service providers while expanding Connect and developer tools for distributed file workflows ahead of IBC 2026.
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News blocksandfiles.com 1 month ago
Are we human?
Cloud file streamer LucidLink is extending its media workflow capabilities and developer tools, while developing centralized managed service provider facilities.
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News TV Tech 3 months ago
LucidLink Unifies Adobe Frame.io, Enterprise Storage
Editors and producers can now access Frame.io assets and all other supporting media
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News IAMT 3 months ago
LucidLink - The Architecture Has to Match: How Enterprise Production Is Catching Up
Rupert Watson, VP GTM, EMEA, LucidLinkInvestment in corporate studios is being driven by a simple realization: enterprises now produce the volume of content a mid-sized broadcaster used to, and outsourcing every piece of it is neither fast enough nor cost
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News SiliconANGLE 4 months ago
Exclusive: LucidLink launches MCP server to give AI agents shared access to distributed files
LucidLink Corp., the maker of a cloud network-attached storage system based on object storage technology, today extended its distributed file system technology into agentic artificial intelligence wit
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News blocksandfiles 5 months ago
LucidLink CEO says it
LucidLink CEO Peter Thompson reckons that an AI data center boom is exposing a largely overlooked bo ...
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News Fortune 7 months ago
I was rejected 33 times and built a $390 million company - at 48 years old. Age bias in tech is costing us all
I went to Stanford and became an entrepreneur, even winning an Emmy. Dismissing later-stage founders isn't just unfair - it's economically irrational.
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News StorageNewsletter 7 months ago
LucidLink Launches Connect to Extend Instant Access to Data Stores
LucidLink Launches Connect Extend Instant Access Data Stores
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News ENRnews 9 months ago
LucidLink Platform's S3 Cloud Streams Project Files Instantly
Joseph Larson was a civil engineer and project manager working for Eden Prairie-Minn.-based engineer EVS before moving to Christchurch, New Zealand in 2022.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at LucidLink over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
12
Stack modernity
67/100
Languages
Apex33%
TypeScript33%
C++17%
Node JS17%
Frameworks & libraries
Lottie8%
React.js8%
Databases
MariaDB17%
Redis17%
InfluxDB8%
MongoDB8%
Cloud & platforms
AWS58%
Windows25%
Linux17%
Unix17%
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Full LucidLink tech stack 29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$90k
Typical range
$90k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Junior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $90k $90k
Highest paying role Technical Support Engineer, L2 $90k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
5
1 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
43 days
faster than 31% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
27% ▲
Backend
18% ▲
QA
18% ▼
Enterprise Apps
18% ▼
Support
9% ▼
Design
9% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
Added Shopify to stack Sep 2026
Added Rive to stack Sep 2026
Added Spotify to stack Sep 2026
Added Shift-Left Security to stack Aug 2026
Added Shift-Left to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Sofia
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Sofia Bulgaria
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 75% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Design
seen since Apr 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $32k – $83k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Sofia
TypeScript
C++
Redis
MariaDB
DevOps
AWS
Platform Engineering
Windows
Unix
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≈ $33k – $81k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • Sofia
Lottie
Design
Rive
Apply
Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Sofia
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
MongoDB
Redis
RabbitMQ
InfluxDB
MariaDB
DevOps
Prometheus
CI/CD
AWS
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Incident Management
SLI/SLO/SLA
Amazon CloudWatch
Linux
Apply
$72k – $90k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, MT hours) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp
AWS
Linux
Windows
TCP/IP
Apply
≈ $44k – $83k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Sofia
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
React.js
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Management
Agile
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Financials

Total raised
$95M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series C 2023 $75M Details
Series B 2022 $20M Details