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Funding and backers

Total raised
$115M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$75M
Venture round · Feb 2025 · 19 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
47
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Point72 Ventures - Venture Capital Firm
The money's age
Due for its next round
19 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
26/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Feb 18, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $75M · TechCrunch Apr 2, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $40M · CNBC 2015 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.77%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Feb 2025 $75M — TechCrunch
Venture round Apr 2024 $40M — CNBC
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How Luminance hires

Truth index
D 54/100
Ghost roles
77%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Luminance scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 47 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 77% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 2

Visa details by country

Overview

Luminance is a British legal technology company based in Cambridge that builds AI for contract review, negotiation, due diligence and wider contract management for law firms and enterprise legal teams. Founded in 2015, it serves customers in more than 60 countries, including AMD, National Grid, LG and DHL, has been named in the Forbes AI 50 and the Tech Nation Future Fifty and has received two Queen's Awards. It hires machine learning research engineers, AI and application engineers, quality and support engineers, legal implementation specialists and subject matter experts, as well as account executives and customer success managers.

News

News BBC 2 months ago
BBC Radio 5 Live - Wake Up to Money
News and views on business and the world of personal finance
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News Law.com 4 months ago
Luminance Launches Proprietary LLM for Contract Work
The new LLM, a rarity among legal tech companies, is intended to offer better and faster performance on contract tasks including interpreting clauses and flagging risks.
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News LawyersWeekly 4 months ago
Legal teams risk falling behind by making these critical AI scaling mistakes
As legal teams race to move beyond experimentation and implement AI at scale under mounting pressure to keep pace, many are making critical missteps that could leave firms exposed to significant long-term consequences in an increasingly AI-driven legal la
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News Australasian Lawyer 5 months ago
Understanding US law is key to cross-border contracts: Luminance's Clementine Fox
The legal AI company's Australia general manager explains the LexisNexis partnership's impact on ANZ
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News Cult of Mac 5 months ago
How to set up the colorful Luminance wallpaper in iOS 26.5
The colorful Luminance Lock Screen wallpaper and watch face add beautiful color gradients to your iPhone and Apple Watch.
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News Forbes 5 months ago
Apple Watch Pride Luminance: What The New Watch Face Is Like And How To Get It
There's a new Apple Watch face available now. Here's what it looks like and how to install it if you fancy it.
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News LawyersWeekly 5 months ago
LexisNexis, Luminance alliance opens up advanced legal workflows
The new alliance between LexisNexis and Luminance has allowed in-house practitioners to make more informed contract decisions.
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News Legal IT Insider 6 months ago
LexisNexis and Luminance form alliance to embed citation-backed legal AI into contract workflows
LexisNexis and Luminance have entered a strategic alliance aimed at bringing citation-backed legal insight directly into contract negotiation
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ElevenLabs, Synthesia, Luminance : ces scale-up britanniques qui montent dans l'IA
Le Royaume-Uni abrite certaines des scale-up les plus prometteuses dans le secteur de l'IA. Maddyness se penche sur trois d'entre elles.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Luminance over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
5
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
47/100
Cloud & platforms
Figma
Together AI
Developer tools
Lovable
Practices & domains
Mixture of Experts
Edge AI
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$95k
Typical range
$70k – $250k
Open positions
16
7 Jobs
Senior 28.6%
Staff 14.3%
Architect 57.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 2 $200k $150k – $250k
Staff 1 $140k $140k
Architect 4 $180k $150k – $230k
Highest paying role Subject Matter Expert $250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Luminance By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
61/100
Growing
Open positions
48
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
26 days
faster than 46% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 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.
Sales
41% ▲
Legal
24% ▼
Solutions
18% ▼
Leadership
12% ▲
Finance
6% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Vancouver Oct 2026
New location: Cambridge Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
8
Countries
4
Busiest office
Cambridge
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Cambridge United Kingdom
HQ
10 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, AI/ML, Finance
seen since Jun 2025 job postings
New York United States
Sales office
15 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff $142k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Legal, Leadership
seen since Jun 2025 job postings
London United Kingdom
Sales office
13 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Legal, Sales, Product
seen since Jun 2025 job postings
San Francisco United States
Sales office
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $125k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Legal, Solutions
seen since Jun 2025 job postings
Sydney Australia
Sales office
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Jun 2025 job postings
Dallas United States
Sales office
2 open roles 10-50 est. staff $83k Avg Salary
hires for Support, Sales
seen since Jun 2025 job postings
Toronto Canada
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Jun 2025
Vancouver Canada
Sales office
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Apr 2026 job postings

Jobs

$230k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • New York
Together AI
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$150k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • New York
Together AI
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$75k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Dallas
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≈ $81k – $193k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • London
Lovable
Edge AI
Design
Figma
Management
Agile
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≈ $71k – $160k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • London
Lovable
Edge AI
Design
Figma
Management
Agile
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$115k – $150k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • New York
Python
JavaScript
Node JS
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ServiceNow
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≈ $129k – $254k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • New York • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
Node JS
Slack
ServiceNow
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≈ $103k – $189k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • London
Python
JavaScript
Node JS
Slack
ServiceNow
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≈ $39k – $74k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • London
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In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • Cambridge
Python
Reinforcement Learning
Scikit-learn
Computer Vision
NLP
NER
Transformers
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Cambridge
Python
Claude
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
RAG
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Financials

Total raised
$115M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $75M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $40M Details