Lightup
Founded 2019 · 19 employees on LinkedIn · 8 known investors
Lightup provides enterprise data observability software that monitors and validates production data pipelines using AI-powered anomaly detection. The platform serves data engineering teams and enterprise organizations managing large-scale data operations.
Investors · 8
Andreessen Horowitz✓ verifiedMenlo Park · $500K – $50M
Vela Partners✓ verifiedSan Francisco · $100K – $500Kvia Yigit Ihlamur · inferred
Incubate Fund✓ verifiedTokyo
S28 Capital✓ verifiedSan Francisco · $1M – $5M
Shasta Ventures✓ verifiedMenlo Park · $250K – $6M
Incubate USLos Altos
GTMfundreportedScottsdale · $500K – $1.5M
Also in the syndicate · 1
Newland Ventureslead
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$9M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2023
- $9MSeries AAug 2023 · 3 sources
Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Newland Ventures (lead)
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Competitors · 9
by search overlap
Netezza21 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.
Elastic13 shared keywordsElastic develops search-powered software for enterprises, offering products for search, observability, and security built on Elasticsearch. The company positions its technology to help organizations use their data for AI applications.
Datadog11 shared keywordsDatadog is a cloud-based monitoring and security platform that provides observability, analytics, and protection for infrastructure, applications, and data across enterprises. The platform serves development, security, and operations teams managing cloud-native and hybrid environments.
Splunk11 shared keywordsSplunk offers a unified platform for security and observability that ingests and analyzes large-scale data across hybrid cloud environments. Its tools support security operations centers with analytics and automated response, and help teams monitor application and infrastructure performance.
Databricks9 shared keywordsDatabricks provides a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence, enabling organizations to build and deploy data and AI applications on cloud infrastructure.
Atlan8 shared keywordsAtlan builds a "context layer" and metadata management platform, including a data catalog, data governance tools, and a Context Lakehouse, that supplies enterprise data context to AI agents and data teams. It serves large enterprises looking to make AI systems operate with knowledge of their data environment.
Qlik7 shared keywordsQlik provides a data integration and analytics platform, including an agentic AI framework, that helps enterprises turn their data into insights and actions for business decisions. It serves large organizations, including a majority of Fortune 500 companies.
DQLabs6 shared keywordsDQLabs offers Prizm, an AI-native data control plane that combines data observability, data quality, and cataloging in one platform. It provides autonomous monitoring across pipelines, warehouses, lakehouses, and BI, policy-driven quality rules, and an enterprise context layer with lineage and governance for data teams.
Metric Insights6 shared keywordsMetric Insights offers Concierge, an agent harness that connects large language models to analytics resources such as certified reports, semantic models, cloud database agents, a business glossary, and KPI monitoring. It lets business users ask complex data questions and receive analyst-quality answers.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Lightup do?
- Lightup provides enterprise data observability software that monitors and validates production data pipelines using AI-powered anomaly detection. The platform serves data engineering teams and enterprise organizations managing large-scale data operations.
- Who are Lightup's investors?
- Lightup's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Vela Partners, Incubate Fund, S28 Capital, Shasta Ventures, Incubate US, GTMfund.
- How much funding has Lightup raised?
- Lightup has disclosed $9M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.