Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Lumos is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company building an autonomous identity platform. Its platform discovers, governs, reviews, and automates access for human, machine, and AI identities across SaaS, cloud, HR, identity-provider, and on-premises environments.
Primary product
Lumos Autonomous Identity Platform, including Albus AI, identity governance, lifecycle automation, access reviews, SaaS discovery and spend optimization, privileged/time-based access, and non-human identity governance.
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
101-200
Work style
Remote
Industry
Enterprise software
Sub-industry
Identity governance and administration (IGA), SaaS management, cybersecurity, access management
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series B
Total raised
$85M
Latest round
Series B · May 2024
Latest amount
$35M
May 2024 · Scale Venture Partners
Series A / financing announced at emergence from stealth
May 2022 · Andreessen Horowitz
Nov 2020
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Alix Childs
Chief Operating Officer
Head of Engineering
Ryan Mattison
Head of Marketing
Mike Alksninis
Head of Customer Success
Ken Olivolo
Head of Sales
Gianni Aiello
Head of Product
Co-Founder; returned to lead Lumos Labs
Founders
Co-Founder; public records indicate he left the operating role in 2024
Lumos describes itself as remote by design but intentionally connected, with a story-led operating model, values integrated into hiring and career progression, recurring company events, offsites, and coworking trips. The company emphasizes autonomy, security, high standards, and building autonomous systems for the agentic era.
Work style
Remote
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public postings show role-specific ranges including approximately $160,000-$180,000 for an Enterprise Customer Success Manager, $170,000-$220,000 for some software-engineering roles, and $185,000-$240,000 for a Staff Product Platform Engineer. Public H-1B filing data indicates a limited history of sponsorship, with reported sponsored-role salaries generally around $119,000-$180,000 and a median near $126,152. Equity details are not consistently public.
Benefits
Pricing
Custom, quote-based enterprise SaaS pricing tied primarily to identity count, application coverage, and contract scope. Lumos does not publish standard pricing. An AWS Marketplace listing shows a $27,000 annual Core Platform reference price plus additional user-based usage charges, but this should not be treated as a universal list price.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $1M-$10M annually; one Exa company profile estimates about $2.1M, but this is a third-party modeled estimate and not company-reported.
Estimated monthly visits
58.9K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Lumos announced the acquisition of Fastgen's workflow-automation technology. Financial terms were not disclosed. Fastgen's workflow builder was expected to be integrated into Lumos for identity lifecycle management, identity-threat detection and response, and spend optimization.
SourceCo-founder and former Head of Engineering Leo Mehr announced that he had stepped back from operating at Lumos and joined Ramp. Later public information indicates he returned to Lumos to lead Lumos Labs; the leadership transition is material but does not indicate a shutdown or financial distress.
SourcePublic LinkedIn data indicates co-founder Alan Flores-López ended his operating role at Lumos in late 2024. No public evidence located indicates a company-wide layoff or closure.
SourceLumos · Jun 2026
Lumos announced a workforce of six identity-focused AI agents covering access reviews, access requests, role mining, entitlement analysis, non-human-identity ownership, and AI-agent ownership.
Lumos · Mar 2026
Lumos announced Identity Intelligence and a collection of identity-security agents designed to discover, investigate, and remediate risks across human, non-human, and AI identities. The agents were announced as available by waitlist.
Lumos · Mar 2026
Lumos reported its second consecutive recognition on the Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers list and cited record revenue growth, new agentic UAR and role-mining capabilities, and continued hiring.
Lumos · Dec 2025
Lumos announced Agentic UARs powered by Albus, designed to analyze usage, peer-group behavior, role anomalies, and sensitivity before recommending or enforcing access decisions.
Lumos · Dec 2024
Lumos announced its acquisition of Fastgen’s low-code workflow technology, with plans to integrate workflow-building capabilities into identity lifecycle, threat-response, and spend-optimization products.
12 jobs at Lumos