Founded in 2015 by Soohyun Julie Koo, Luceque was created to discover brilliant products and technologies and connect them to the global marketplace. Luceque enables inventors and companies to navigate barriers to the market and to elevate the quality of life for people, one innovative product at a time.

Julie’s entrepreneurial spirit, backed by leadership roles in private industry and in public service, provided her with a unique vantage to see people and companies—large and small—trying to compete in a world that can be unfriendly to the novel.

As a business leader in today’s fast-moving world where domination by huge business enterprises can feel inevitable, Julie looked past the obvious and recognized that oftentimes emerging technologies can be overshadowed by the sheer scale of the big competitors. She saw that the new, the impactful, the wonderful products and technology brought to existence by individuals and small companies might never see the light of day unless there was a way to guide them through the complex—often tangled—journey from inception to market to people.

Julie and her team are driven by a purpose to celebrate human creativity and unite the optimistic spirit of the inventor with a marketplace seeking innovative sustainable products and technologies — products that are fun, that can help make people well, that enable greater productivity, and that are designed and made responsibly and sustainably. People deserve an opportunity to buy them.

We believe that while countries may have borders, human creativity does not. “Innovation Beyond Borders” is at the core of what drives our spirit. Together, we can help the world constantly evolve and grow into a better place.