Laserdata

LaserData is a data infrastructure company building a real-time streaming and data platform for distributed systems and AI agents. Its platform is centered on a durable log accessed through a single typed SDK available in Rust, Python and TypeScript, exposing eight surfaces — log, views, change feed, state, graph, memory, context and fabric — over the same underlying messages. Messages are recorded once in the log and can be consumed live, resumed from an offset or replayed from the beginning, while materialized projections keep queryable state in an embedded database with pluggable backends for external database clusters.

The product is delivered in three layers: the Laser SDK for writing applications; Laser Stack, a local Docker Compose environment (amd64 and arm64, usable offline after first run) that runs the Apache Iggy streaming core and a Laser data plane providing query, state, graph and run APIs; and LaserData Cloud, the managed production service. LaserData Cloud offers a free tier on AWS or GCP with no credit card, fully managed deployments, Bring Your Own Cloud, NVMe SSD or network-drive storage, Rust-native source connectors for PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB and Random, sink connectors for PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Apache Iceberg, Quickwit, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Delta Lake, HTTP and Stdout, a web console and a single-binary CLI that also runs as an interactive TUI. Enterprise controls include RBAC, metrics, heartbeats, structured logs, audit, zero-trust architecture, scoped credentials and separation of control and data planes. Deployments currently ship standalone, with a high-availability cluster mode in initial preview built on Viewstamped Replication consensus work upstream in Apache Iggy.

The company describes LaserData Cloud as ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 and GDPR compliant, with further certification in progress, and operates a trust center. It also maintains a partner program; LakeSail is listed as a compute partner, with a reference architecture routing LaserData event streams into LakeSail's Rust-native, Spark-compatible Sail engine for data engineering and agentic workloads.

Founding story

Piotr Gankiewicz started the underlying project as a personal side project to learn Rust, choosing streaming infrastructure because years of operating brokers in production had shown him where existing systems were heavier and more complex than necessary. Kranti Parisa had developed a parallel focus on ultra-low-latency, resource-efficient data infrastructure while leading search, personalization and real-time AI/ML workloads at Apple, where he observed how additional 50-100 millisecond delays affected customer experience and revenue and how teams compensated for infrastructure limits with more hardware. That shared conviction that the next generation of streaming systems should be built in Rust brought the two together to found the company.

Business model

Open-core infrastructure: the core streaming engine, Apache Iggy, is developed as an open-source project under the Apache Software Foundation, while LaserData sells LaserData Cloud, a managed platform that operates that engine for customers. Deployment options span fully managed hosting on AWS or GCP, Bring Your Own Cloud inside the customer's own AWS or GCP account, and on-premises on customer hardware, with the same SDK and connection string across all of them. The company describes itself as B2B SaaS serving enterprise software buyers.

Tiered subscription for the managed platform, with a no-cost free tier (single node, 1 GB RAM, 200 KB/s read and write, 20 GB network disk on AWS or GCP) intended for evaluation and paid tiers for managed, BYOC and on-premises production deployments; paid tiers add options such as NVMe SSD storage and are wired for cluster mode.

Traction

The underlying Apache Iggy project reports more than 4,200 GitHub stars, a Discord community approaching 700 members and well over 100 contributors, and is described as one of the top three Rust projects by stars in the Apache GitHub organization. LaserData Cloud is generally available with a free tier and self-serve SSO onboarding, SDKs are published on crates.io, PyPI and npm, and the company is listed as an active seed-stage portfolio company of Mango Capital in a Q3 2025 cohort.

Latest developments

LaserData opened LaserData Cloud with a free tier on AWS and GCP, alongside managed and BYOC deployments, a connector catalog, console and CLI. It also released Laser Stack, a local runtime for the SDK, and is developing a high-availability cluster mode, currently in initial preview, based on Viewstamped Replication work upstream in Apache Iggy. The company states ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, and is hiring engineers and a developer evangelist.