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Luminate, Inc.
Luminate, Inc. is an image advertising and related content network. This company serves more than 150 million users and over five billion image views each month. Luminate's platform combines computer vision and crowdsourcing technology to deliver visually targeted ads and content. Investors look to Luminate to provide feedback and guidance to improve their ad layouts. Luminate investigates existing advertisements to see which images are more successful and where clicks are happening within an ad creative.

About
Luminate was founded in 2008 by technologists from Netscape and LiveOps. James Everingham, CEO of Luminate, was a senior director of engineering for both Netscape and LiveOps which led him to create his own company based on his twenty-five year experience in the business. Chris Waterson then joined Luminate as a founding Architect, and has helped lead the design of Luminate's technology platform. Terry Murphy, CFO of Luminate, with his twenty-five years of experience directs Luminate's financial, accounting, and legal functions. Luminate is a private company funded by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, and Shasta Ventures. Headquarters is located in Mountain View, California.

Blog
Luminate has their own blog they like to call the Imagesphere! The blog features news about images, Luminate, and more. They disclose information about products, data, and what's new in the imagesphere. Staff upload their own personal images and describe their experiences and what it takes to publish a great photo. Luminate allows viewers to interact and share ideas via comments and social networks.

Press
Luminate was covered in The New York Times blog Media Decoder. Luminate partnered with Getty Images improving the experience for inquisitive viewers. Luminate will take their photos and add small bits of information based on what the photo is of, called metadata. Adding that information helped publishers retain readers by disclosing more information, preventing them from visiting another site to search for the content. Luminate also appeared in TechCrunch. It covers the importance of images Luminate provides and the the role images play in online experience.