Retail ecommerce

Lumona

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Lumona is an AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media. When you’re looking to buy a new phone, instead of adding reddit to the end of your search and opening tabs of threads that take forever to get through, you can search on Lumona to get all of that processed for you on one page so you can make the best decision while saving

Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Lumona is an AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media. When you’re looking to buy a new phone, instead of adding reddit to the end of your search and opening tabs of threads that take forever to get through, you can search on Lumona to get all of that processed for you on one page so you can make the best decision while saving time.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Dylan Walker

Founder

Dylan is the co-founder and CEO of Lumona. He is from Ventura, CA and studied computer science and engineering at MIT. He gained insights into how systems and APIs at scale work with experience at Google and Stripe. Not having exposure to traditional avenues of applying to elite colleges, he relied on Reddit and Google to learn about how to maximize his chances of being admitted. Since then, he's been focused on enabling everyone to pursue their goals and equalize the playing field.

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Qiong Zhou Huang

Founder

Qiong is the Co-Founder and CTO of Lumona. He previously studied Computer Science at MIT, where he conducted Machine Learning research at the McGovern Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science. He was also co-president of MIT web.lab, a group that teaches web development to hundreds of MIT students over the winter semester. Qiong has extensive experience building products that prioritize user experience, working at startups in diverse areas including computer vision, remote work, and edtech.

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Philena Liu

Founder

Philena is the Co-founder and CFO of Lumona. She studied CS with a minor in Math at MIT, where she was one of the lecturers in a student-run web-development class (web.lab) and the Tournament Co-Director of one of the most prestigious math tournaments in the world (HMMT). She had also worked on NLP and ML research projects before exploring LLM-assisted search with Lumona.

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Founded 2023 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedBoston, MA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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