Luma is a world class creative studio with offices in Los Angeles and Melbourne. We build compelling art and technology with a strong focus on company culture. We formed in 2002 with the unwavering goal to create standout work with exceptional people… and to have a lot of fun along the way. Throughout the years, we’ve expanded beyond our roots in VFX into original content, venture capital and altruism.
Luma Pictures is a globally renowned and independent creative studio, bringing magic to acclaimed movies like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy, and more for nearly 20 years. In 2015, we founded Luma Launch, a leading early-stage venture fund that invests in notable startups helping build a better world. Luma Features is actively developing and producing highly imaginative and emotionally rich original films. And in 2020, we established Luma Legacy—our altruistic venture pursuing initiatives to help improve the root causes to society’s core problems.
Head to our careers page to see what openings we have available.
Luma Pictures is a globally renowned and independent creative studio, bringing magic to acclaimed movies like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy, and more for nearly 20 years. In 2015, we founded Luma Launch, a leading early-stage venture fund that invests in notable startups helping build a better world. Luma Features is actively developing and producing highly imaginative and emotionally rich original films. And in 2020, we established Luma Legacy—our altruistic venture pursuing initiatives to help improve the root causes to society’s core problems.
Head to our careers page to see what openings we have available.
Location: United States, Atlanta
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $19.5M
Founded date: 2002
Investors 3
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 14.09.2016 | Series A | $7M | - |
| 07.04.2016 | Series A | $12.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 17
| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.01.2018 | Even the Most Interesting Man in the World couldn’t make Luma work as standalone company | Luma, a three-year-old maker of smart Wi-Fi routers, has been acquired by First Alert, a maker of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors that is itself a subsidiary of Newell Brands, a public company whose other holdings include Rubbermaid. Te... |
| 07.11.2016 | Luma’s WiFi system gets Alexa integration | It was really just a matter of time before WiFi startup Luma added Alexa functionality to its bag of tricks. After all, the hardware startup counts Amazon as among its biggest backers – and distributors. The functionality arrives today for ... |
| 15.09.2016 | Luma Raises $7m in Series A Funding | Luma, an Atlanta, GA-based home WiFi startup, raised $7m in Series A funding. Backers included Andreessen Horowitz and GV (formerly Google Ventures). This additional funding adds to an initial $12.5m Series A round co-led by Accel Partners ... |
| 14.09.2016 | Luma nabs another $7 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and GV | Luma, an Atlanta-based company that makes a sleek router with a wide variety of bells and whistles, has added $7 million in funding to its coffers from Andreessen Horowitz and GV. The capital comes fast on the heels of a $12.5 million in Se... |
| 18.06.2016 | IoT, Venture Capital Backed Startups Make our Home Smarter | Startups leverage the technology to change the world we live. Or, minimally, a small part of it either at work, improving our productivity, or how we go to office, our way to communicate, to book a holiday, just to make a few examples. But ... |
| 16.06.2016 | Can $400 buy you perfect home Wi-Fi? Luma wants you to think so | Wireless routers are the most necessary but least-loved gadget that everyone has to buy. It’s difficult to make a light-up internet box interesting, but that’s what a new startup has tried to do with its Luma router system, which is finally... |
| 16.06.2016 | Luma’s home WiFi boosting system goes up for sale, will hit Best Buy stores in July | Been a long time coming, but Luma’s finally ready to start shipping units to eager early adopters of the hardware startup’s home WiFi system. The routers, which have been up for pre-order since last year, offer what the company calls “surro... |
| 07.04.2016 | Luma Raises $12.5M in Series A Funding | Luma, an Atlanta, GA-based WiFi router for the home, raised $12.5m in Series A funding. The round was led by Accel Partners with participation from the Amazon Alexa Fund and existing investors Felicis Ventures, Base Ventures, BIP Capital, R... |
| 07.04.2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 7, 2016 | Luxe received $50M investment; Intercom raised $50M; Karamba Security secured $2.5M seed funding Karamba Security, an ECU endpoint cybersecurity company, emerged from stealth with $2.5 million in seed funding to try to solve it. The funding... |
| 07.04.2016 | With $12.5 million in funding, including from Amazon, the slick Luma router looks like fierce competition | Finally, companies have begun to recognize a long overlooked opportunity to develop a next-generation router that looks sleek and is far more user-friendly than the networking hardware of yesteryear. Some contenders are the established comp... |
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