In 2022, Lynx was an ambitious real-time operating system company with a team of 50 U.S.-based employees. We were known for LynxOS-178, a certifiable edge operating system trusted in avionics, and MOSA.ic, a modular hypervisor-based platform that was gaining recognition for its integrity and safety.
Fast forward to 2025: Lynx, now a global edge computing leader, has grown to over 300 employees across a dozen physical locations worldwide. We support our customers from development to deployment to lifecycle management of secure, certifiable CPU and GPU-based edge applications.
That’s 600% growth in just three years, and we’re still accelerating.
How Did We Do It?
Backed by OceanSound Partners, we made strategic acquisitions to evolve from a software vendor to an end-to-end solution provider for safety- and mission-critical systems:
- Timesys, LLC – Experts in cyber vulnerability management and embedded Linux services, enabling secure software supply chain transparency.
- Thompson Software Solutions – A defense-focused engineering powerhouse that places deeply qualified talent directly into customer programs to drive delivery at the edge.
- Core Avionics & Industrial – The only commercial supplier of safety-certifiable GPU graphics and computer solutions for aerospace and defense.
These acquisitions brought complementary IP, deep talent, and trusted customer relationships, creating the foundation for a truly differentiated platform.
From RTOS to a Multicore Deployment Platform
We recognized that customers were fatigued by vendor lock-in and the integration burden of proprietary stacks. So, we stayed true to our open architecture roots, and expanded outward, offering orchestration capabilities that let customers build, compose, and control their software stack with flexibility.
Whether it's Linux, RTOS, or bare-metal, MOSA.ic gives integrators control over the software they use without compromise.
Real Multicore, Engineered from Day One
Many companies claim multicore support, but behind the curtain, they rely on single-core era designs, with centralized control that quickly bottlenecks as core count rises. Lynx is different. We designed for multicore from the ground up:
- No centralized multi-core manager.
- Each application runs in its own isolated kernel space.
- Each gets direct access to a dedicated core.
The result: faster performance, lower power draw, better thermal margins, and the ability to unlock the full potential of modern processors.
Pre-Integrated Compute, Graphics, and Security
Each acquisition expanded our platform capability, and we’ve pre-integrated it so customers don’t have to:
- Lynx MOSA.ic and CoreSuite 2.0 now provide a seamless integration of CPU and GPU compute across mixed-criticality systems.
- Embedded Linux support is first-class.
- Cybersecurity and debugging are built-in, with integrated tools from:
- RunSafe Security for memory protection and attack surface randomization
- Percepio Tracealyzer for real-time tracing and debugging
- AdaCore for safety-critical software lifecycle tools
- Avionics Interface Technologies for ARINC-615-compliant data loading
It’s a software stack built to accelerate time-to-certification and time-to-field.
What’s Next for Lynx?
Lynx software is now found in hundreds of commercial and military aircraft, autonomous drones, and even rockets that carry payloads, and people, into space.
The world is changing. Consumer innovation cycles are crashing into mission-critical systems. Cyber threats evolve daily. Speed, safety, and flexibility are no longer tradeoffs, they are table stakes.
That’s why Lynx is committed to helping the world’s most forward-leaning organizations Seize the Edge.
