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About Lumenary

Lumenary is a Melbourne-based research and index house specialising in founder-led public companies. Its research arm, Lumenary Research, maintains a proprietary classification of listed companies worldwide and licenses a family of founder-led indices, independently calculated and administered. Lumenary also manages the Lumenary Global Founders Fund, a wholesale Australian unit trust that applies the methodology.

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Lumenary is a Melbourne-based research and index house focused on founder-led public companies.

Key facts

• Founded: 2016; the Lumenary Global Founders Fund launched July 2017
• Indices: Solactive Lumenary Global Founders Index (flagship), Solactive Lumenary AI G2 Founders Index and Solactive Lumenary Global Founders Connect Index
• Classification universe: ~4,500 companies classified founder-led across all market capitalisations, from a global screened universe of ~14,700, as at 2026
• Research series published since 2016
• Publications: The Founder Effect (Wiley, 2025)

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Recent coverage

See In the Media ↗︎ on Lumenary Research for a curated list of published articles and interviews.

Media contact

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Lumenary welcomes enquiries about the Lumenary Global Founders Fund and its investment approach, and speaks to the founder-led opportunity rather than individual holdings.