Lutris Technologies

Lutris Technologies, Inc. was an enterprise software and services company based in Santa Cruz, California.

History

Lutris was founded by Paul Morgan and Michael Browder, two ex-employees of the Santa Cruz Operation about 1995, initially under the name of Information Refinery, Incorporated (IRI). The main business of the company was building web sites using the Java Platform, initially through consulting contracts. To facilitate the design and implementation of these web sites, the company built an Extensible Markup Language (XML) manipulation tool: XMLC, and Enhydra Server, a general purpose application server.

Initial venture capital funding of $10 million came in November 1999 from investors Chase Capital Partners and Chase H&Q (formerly Hambrecht & Quist). A second round for a total of $15 million, announced in February 2000, included TransCosmos USA, and the Intel 64 Fund. On August 23, 2000 an additional $16 million in funding was announced from Compaq and NEC. Presidents included David H. Young and Yancy Lind.