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Geolumina
Techstars '21Lakeway, US · Founded 2019 · 5 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Geolumina applies machine learning to subsurface data analysis. The company was founded by professionals with deep expertise in subsurface technology and geology.
Also known as NVZN
Founders & leadership
Geolumina was founded in 2019 by Kali Blevins.
Investors · 1
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Geolumina is an artificial intelligence software company focused on the subsurface domain, describing itself as a team of geologists and data scientists bringing digital transformation to upstream oil and gas. Its stated aim is to make geologic interpretation accessible to a broad range of oil and gas professionals by building interpretation logic directly into its algorithms.
The company's product is the NVZN AI system, an end-to-end platform for capturing and scaling insight from images. NVZN connects to a customer's existing file structure without requiring data to be moved or reorganized, locates image files and extracts images embedded in documents such as PowerPoint and PDF files, then organizes them using computer vision and natural language processing. Users can search the resulting corpus visually or by text, apply Geolumina's built-in models, or train models that encode their own experts' insight. The company states this model-creation workflow requires 80 percent less effort than existing products. Downstream capabilities include AI-assisted workflows, automated report generation and custom machine learning models, with results delivered through an interface that handles backend processing on the customer's behalf.
Geolumina positions NVZN as image-type agnostic, citing applications spanning seismic data, thin sections, satellite imagery and site plans, and targets three groups of users: subsurface practitioners, machine learning teams, and management teams seeking discoverable and trackable knowledge assets.
Founding story
Geolumina was founded by David Thul (Founder & CEO), Kali Blevins (Founder & CTO) and Stephen Hermeston (Founder & CDO). The founding team is described as geologists and data scientists.
Business model
Geolumina sells the NVZN AI system to enterprises as a managed service: it connects to the customer's existing file storage, performs backend processing, and delivers search, analysis and model-building capabilities through its own interface. Prospective customers are directed to schedule a demo.
Traction
Public information indicates a company of 1-10 employees at pre-seed stage; the website references a clients section but does not name customers.
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Market position
Geolumina describes itself as a subsurface AI company and is listed as a pre-seed stage company in the artificial intelligence, computer, oil and gas, and software industries, with 1-10 employees.
Technology
The NVZN system combines computer vision and natural language processing to locate image files across a customer's file structure, extract images embedded in documents including PowerPoint and PDF, and self-organize them regardless of domain. It offers visual and text-based search returning results in milliseconds, built-in models, and tooling for customers to train custom machine learning models encoding their own expertise. The company's public web stack includes Cloudflare, Google Workspace, jQuery, HubSpot Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Calendly and core-js.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales driven from the company website, with contact pages, a QR contact card listing founder email addresses, and demo scheduling as the primary conversion path.
Upstream oil and gas organizations and subsurface practitioners, along with in-house machine learning teams and management teams responsible for organizational knowledge. Use cases cited span seismic interpretation, thin section analysis, satellite imagery and site plans.
Geography
United States. Company listings place Geolumina in Bryan, Texas, with additional locations noted in Austin, Texas.
History
Founded in 2019. The company website carries a 2022 copyright notice and remains a small team of 1-10 people at pre-seed stage.
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- Geoluminageolumina.ai · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Geolumina do?
- Geolumina builds the NVZN AI system, which extracts, organizes and analyzes subsurface and enterprise image data.
- Who founded Geolumina?
- Geolumina was founded by Kali Blevins in 2019.
- Who are Geolumina's investors?
- Geolumina's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Geolumina headquartered?
- Geolumina is headquartered in Lakeway, US.