When was LanceDB founded?

LanceDB was founded in 2022 and raised its 1st funding round within a year of its incorporation.

Where is LanceDB located?

LanceDB is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.

Who is the current CEO of LanceDB?

Chang She of LanceDB. They have also founded 1 company.

How many employees does LanceDB have?

As of Feb 28, 2026, the latest employee count at LanceDB is 41.

Is LanceDB a funded company?

LanceDB is a funded company, having raised a total of $41M across 3 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Seed round, raised on Mar 2022.

When was the latest funding round of LanceDB?

LanceDB's latest funding was a $***** Series A round on Jun 24, 2025, with participation from 7 investors.

Where does LanceDB rank among its competitors?

LanceDB ranks 8th amongst 46 active competitors, of which 12 are funded. It stands 5th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was LanceDB, which secured $30M in Jun, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of LanceDB?

LanceDB's top competitors include DataStax, Pinecone Systems and Weaviate. Among them, LanceDB secured the most recent funding round in June, 2025.

LanceDB - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Company Details

Developer of a unified data platform designed for multimodal data. The platform supports storage, search, feature engineering, analytics, and training. It facilitates fast scans, random access, and large blob storage. The platform offers advanced retrieval capabilities, including hybrid search and filtering. It automates feature engineering with declarative, distributed, and versioned pre-processing. The platform also provides high-performance SQL for multimodal data exploration and optimized training pipelines.

Website: lancedb.com
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Key Metrics

Founded Year

2022

Location

San Francisco, United States

Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$41M in 3 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series A, Jun 24, 2025, $*****

Investors

Y Combinator & 9 more

Ranked

8^th among 46 active competitors

Employee Count

41 as on Feb 28, 2026

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LanceDB has raised a total funding of $41M over 3 rounds. Its first funding round was on Mar 2022. Its latest funding round was a Series A round on Jun 24, 2025 for $*****. 7 investors participated in its latest round. LanceDB has 10 institutional investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of LanceDB:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Jun 24, 2025	5286400	Series A	1406466	8468975	4505739	4370578
May 11, 2024	7451510	Seed	3473528	6003305	2665453	Swift Ventures & 2 more
Mar 2022	6157978	Seed	8013709	2966255	Y Combinator	4819057

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The founders of LanceDB are Chang She and Lei Xu. Chang She is the CEO of LanceDB.

Here are the details of LanceDB's key team members:

Chang She: CEO / Co-Founder of LanceDB and founder of 2 other companies, DataPad and Lambda Foundry.
Lei Xu: Co-Founder / CTO of LanceDB.

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LanceDB's employee count trend

LanceDB has 41 employees as of Feb 26. Here is LanceDB's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of LanceDB include DataStax, Pinecone Systems and Weaviate. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of LanceDB, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	DataStax 2010, Santa Clara (United States), Acquired	Provider of data management and AI application development infrastructure solutions	$305M	Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Meritech ... & 29 others	72/100
2nd	Pinecone Systems 2016, San Mateo (United States), Series B	Developer of a vector database for AI application production at scale	$138M	Wing Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz ... & 3 others	68/100
3rd	Weaviate 2019, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Series B	Developer of a vector database for AI-powered search and applications	$50M	Index Ventures, New Enterprise Associates ... & 4 others	61/100
4th	Qdrant 2020, Berlin (Germany), Series A	AI powered vector database system	$37.8M	Spark Capital, 42 Capital & 13 others	57/100
5th	Sqream 2010, New York City (United States), Series C	Developer of a GPU-native data acceleration platform for AI factories	$118M	Mangrove Capital Partners, Blumberg Capital ... & 13 others	52/100
6th	Dnotitia 2023, Seoul (South Korea), Seed	Developer of vector database and edge AI device for LLMs	$15.1M	Timeworks Investment, Telechips & 7 others	52/100
7th	Vespa 2017, Trondheim (Norway), Series A	AI powered vector database platform	$31M	Blossom Capital	49/100
8th	LanceDB 2022, San Francisco (United States), Series A	Developer of a unified data platform designed for multimodal data	$41M	CRV, Zero Prime Ventures & 8 others	46/100
9th	Chroma 2022, San Francisco (United States), Seed	Developer of a platform providing vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search	$18M	Quiet Capital, Air Street Capital & 14 others	41/100
10th	SuperDuperDB 2023, Berlin (Germany), Seed	Open source based vector database for AI app development	$1.75M	session.vc, Intel Ignite & 2 others	40/100