LanceDB
YC W22 ↗San Francisco, US · Founded 2022 · 35 employees · 12 known investors
LanceDB is an AI-native multimodal lakehouse platform that unifies training data across multiple systems to accelerate model development and dataset creation at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareAIOpsMachine LearningOpen SourceData Engineeringin /lancedb/@lancedbycombinator.com ↗
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W22)
Investors · 12
Angel Collective Opportunity FundSan Francisco
CRV (Charles River Ventures)Bay Area · $250K – $5M
E14 FundCambridge · $1M – $5M
Swift VenturesSan Francisco
The E14 FundCambridge · $1M – $5M
Theory VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $40M
Wayfinder VenturesSan Francisco
Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K
Zero Prime VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $1.5M
ESSENCE VCreportedBothell
Essence Venture CapitalreportedSeattle · $10K – $10Mvia Timothy Chen · inferred
RunwayreportedNew York City
In the news
- LanceDB Raises $30M to Build the Future of AI Data Systemstechnews180.com · 2025
- LanceDB Secures $30 Million In Series A Funding - Finimizefinimize.com · 2025
- LanceDB raises $30 million for multimodal AI data infrastructure - The Economic Timesm.economictimes.com · 2025
- LanceDB Raises $30M Series A to Build the Multimodal Lakehouse - LanceDB Bloglancedb.com · 2025
- LanceDB raises $8M to speed up AI models with its open-source vector database - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com · 2024
- LanceDB raises $11M to build an open-source multimodal AI database for app development | VentureBeatventurebeat.com · 2024
- New Funding and A New Foundation for Multimodal AI Datablog.lancedb.com · 2024
- LanceDB 🍢 - serverless, low-latency vector database for AI applicationsycombinator.com · 2023