Lumos Named to Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2026

SAN FRANCISCO — March 3, 2026 — Lumos, the first Autonomous Identity platform, today announced it has been named to the Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2026 list. Presented in partnership with Statista, the annual ranking recognizes the top startup employers in the United States based on company reputation, employee satisfaction, growth, retention, compensation and benefits, and workplace excellence.

After being named to the list in 2025, Lumos is honored to once again be recognized among the country’s most admired startup employers. The recognition follows a year of tremendous achievement for the company. The company launched innovative new product capabilities like agentic UARs and role-mining for RBAC, equipping customers to break free from legacy IGA and thrive in the agentic era. In doing so, the company has achieved record revenue growth as enterprises adopt Autonomous Identity to secure and manage identities at scale. The success Lumos experienced in 2025 is directly attributed to the company’s talent and people.

Internally, Lumos employees, known as “Alchemists,” are guided by a shared values framework captured in “The Anatomy of an Alchemist.” This unique story-driven approach captures the core values of what it takes to thrive at Lumos by setting the standard, discovering to deliver, painting in pink, and caring genuinely. This foundation has helped the company scale with clarity, cohesion, and ambition.

“Creating a generational company is only possible when you build a culture and cultivate talent who are willing to be bold and courageous in changing the way the market works,” said Andrej Safundzic, CEO and Co-Founder of Lumos. “From day one, we’ve been intentional about building Lumos in a way that unleashes the very best in every single member of our team. Unlocking this potential is absolutely essential in fulfilling our mission to transform the way our customers manage and secure identities. Being named to Forbes’ list of Best Startup Employers is a testament to our team and collective ambition to transform identity and access management for the agentic era by living our values.” 

“From day one, we’ve been intentional about building Lumos in a way that unleashes the very best in every single member of our team."

Lumos is actively hiring across engineering, product, go-to-market, and operations roles. To explore open positions, visit https://www.lumos.com/careers. 

About Lumos
Lumos is the first Autonomous Identity platform that empowers organizations with an agentic approach to enhance security, drive productivity, and meet compliance standards. The company's AI-native platform automatically discovers and manages access across customers' entire tool stack. By delivering rich, contextual intelligence, organizations can move beyond rubber stamping to proactively mitigate identity-based risk, all without slowing their business down. Powered by agentic workflows in Albus, the company's leading identity agent, organizations can address security concerns and establish governance that evolve as quickly as your business does. Trusted by hundreds of companies including Pinterest, Anduril, and GitHub, Lumos powers millions of access requests across global companies. Learn more: lumos.com.

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