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LanceDB
AI · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2022
Open-source, serverless vectordb for production-scale generative AI MoreLess
LanceDB is an open-source, serverless, and low-latency vector database created for AI applications. It is designed for efficient storage, retrieval, and management of vectors and multimodal data, enabling developers to build production-ready AI applications.
The database architecture separates compute and storage, which can lead to significant cost savings. It supports a range of indexing strategies to optimize query performance, including vector indexes for high-dimensional data. LanceDB offers hybrid search capabilities, allowing for a combination of semantic search and full-text search, which are executed as point lookups within the database.
The company provides comprehensive documentation, tutorials, and examples for Python, JavaScript, and Rust, along with guides for serverless deployments and integrations. For enterprise clients, LanceDB offers a cloud platform with features like fine-grained data evolution at a petabyte scale and advanced security. The business model appears to be open-source driven, with a managed cloud offering (LanceDB Cloud) for enterprise customers, likely generating revenue through subscriptions or usage-based pricing for the managed service.
Keywords: vector database, multimodal data, AI applications, open-source, serverless, hybrid search, data management, embedding pipelines, developer tools, enterprise software
Company overview
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- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Employees
- 55
- Open positions
- 10
- Dealroom signal
- 92.1
Valuation & funding
LanceDB funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Jun 2025 | $30M | $120M | CRV · Runway · Zero Prime Ventures · Y Combinator | ↗ |
| SEED✓Equity / VC | May 2024 | $8M | $32M | Essence Venture Capital · Swift Ventures · CRV · Wayfinder Ventures | ↗ |
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Jul 2022 | $125K | $500K | Y Combinator | — |
| OtherOther financing | Mar 2022 | $0 | — | Undisclosed | — |
Financials
Revenue and workforce over time
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| Year | Revenue | Growth | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $1.2M | 0% | 57 |
| 2025 | $1.2M | — | 35 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 |
Growth signals
LanceDB website traffic
Latest recorded traffic for LanceDB is 70K monthly website visits, down 19.5% over the last three months. LanceDB's team grew 57.1% over the past year.
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