Luna Innovations

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Luna Innovations Incorporated
Type	(NASDAQ: LUNA)
Founded	Blacksburg, Virginia (1991)
Headquarters	Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Key people	Kent A. Murphy, President and CEO
Industry	Energy, Environmental, Defense, Healthcare, Industrial, Telecommunications
Products	Heath care / Instrumentation, Test & Measurement solutions
Revenue	$7.9 million quarter ending June 30, 2007
Employees	220
Website	http://www.lunainnovations.com

Luna Innovations is a company headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia. Luna Innovations develops and manufactures products for the healthcare, telecommunications, energy and defense markets. Luna's products are used to measure, monitor, protect and improve processes. Luna's Technology Development Division concentrates in three core areas: sensors and systems (fiber optics and ultrasonics); health sciences; advanced materials including coatings, flame retardants, and nanomaterials. Luna Innovations was founded by an electrical engineering professor at Virginia Tech and was originally headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia. Luna Innovations moved its headquarters to Roanoke in September 2006, into a building in the Riverside Center developed by the Carilion Health Systems.

Luna Innovations has six locations across Virginia: Blacksburg, Roanoke, Danville, Charlottesville, Hampton, and McLean. The company currently has over 220 employees including scientists and engineers and business professionals. Two companies developed from Luna Innovations have been sold to other companies. Luna Energy, which developed pipeline monitoring sensors for the oil and gas industry, was acquired by oil field services firm Baker Hughes. Luna i-Monitoring, which developed a suite of integrated wireless sensors for remote monitoring for the oil and gas industry, was acquired by IHS Energy.

Luna Innovations had an Initial Public Offering in June 2006 with the NASDAQ trading symbol LUNA.