lucideus.com
Lucideus, now rebranded as Safe Security, sells the SAFE platform. It aggregates security signals across an organization's people, processes and technology to quantify breach likelihood and financial cyber risk. It also covers third-party risk management (TPRM) and continuous threat exposure management (CTEM). Customers are large enterprises and governments, mainly in financial services, healthcare, technology and retail, sold B2B as SaaS plus services. Founded in 2012 by Saket Modi, Vidit Baxi and Rahul Tyagi and incubated at IIT Bombay, it has Indian operations in New Delhi and a US base in Palo Alto. It reportedly raised about $70M in total (Wellfound), with backers including John Chambers' JC2 Ventures. It acquired RiskLens in 2023 and Balbix in 2025. Headcount estimates vary widely by source, from about 100 to 800.