Lenses
Founded 2016 · 33 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
Lenses builds software that simplifies management and access to streaming data across hybrid infrastructure, enabling development teams to work independently without central bottlenecks. The platform unifies the developer experience across different streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, helping organizations build real-time services.
Founders & leadership
Lenses was founded in 2016 by Andrew Stevenson.
Investors · 2
Competitors · 9
by search overlap
Confluent202 shared keywordsConfluent provides a cloud-native platform for real-time data streaming and movement, enabling organizations to connect applications and respond to business events as they occur. The platform serves as a central infrastructure layer for handling continuously flowing data across enterprise systems.
Conduktor113 shared keywordsConduktor provides an operations platform for real-time data streaming that unifies access, governance, and observability for Apache Kafka and other streaming data. It serves enterprise organizations seeking to make operational data accessible and AI-ready.
Redpanda101 shared keywordsRedpanda provides real-time data streaming and governance infrastructure for enterprises running data and AI workloads, including agentic AI. Its platform is Kafka-compatible and adds identity, access controls, auditability, and guardrails to let organizations deploy AI agents in production across any cloud or model.
Cloudera89 shared keywordsCloudera is a hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, serving enterprises and data teams. The company provides infrastructure and tools for organizations to manage and analyze large-scale data.
Aiven86 shared keywordsAiven provides an open source data platform designed for AI-readiness that enables businesses to build and deploy data applications across enterprise and startup segments globally.
Netezza83 shared keywordsIBM is a global technology company whose business spans enterprise software (including Red Hat, HashiCorp, and Confluent), IT infrastructure such as mainframes, servers, and storage, and IT consulting services. The company is also investing heavily in quantum computing and AI-based enterprise offerings, including its Lightwell open-source software security clearinghouse and the Anderon quantum wafer foundry.
Instaclustr79 shared keywordsInstaclustr, part of NetApp, provides a managed platform, enterprise support, and consulting for open source data technologies, helping enterprises run their data layer more reliably and efficiently. It offers cloud data application services used to build and operate modern cloud applications.
Hevodata64 shared keywordsHevo provides a data pipeline platform that transforms raw data into clean, structured datasets for reporting, dashboards, and analysis, with support for SQL and dbt Core models. It offers native orchestration, scheduling, lineage tracking, and monitoring for data teams building analytics workflows.
Gravitee Io58 shared keywordsGravitee provides a platform that unifies AI Agent management with API management, event management, and identity and access management, letting enterprises secure, govern, and productize agents, APIs, and event streams through a single control plane. Founded as an open source company, it offers an Apache 2.0 Community Edition that runs on any cloud or on-premises.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Lenses do?
- Lenses builds software that simplifies management and access to streaming data across hybrid infrastructure, enabling development teams to work independently without central bottlenecks. The platform unifies the developer experience across different streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, helping organizations build real-time services.
- Who founded Lenses?
- Lenses was founded by Andrew Stevenson in 2016.
- Who are Lenses's investors?
- Lenses's investors include 83North, Marathon Venture Capital.