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Products
People
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Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
open roles
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Scribble Ventures
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 2026 Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Lance is an artificial intelligence company that develops automated operations and hospitality management software for hotels. The platform utilizes conversational AI agents and digital workflows to handle round-the-clock guest calls, coordinate housekeeping tasks, manage staff scheduling, and integrate with property management systems. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, it enables hoteliers to optimize daily operations, lower labor costs, and elevate guest experience quality.

News

News blog.computationalcomplexity.org 1 month ago
Navier-Stokes and Lean
I was working on this week's post on Lean after reading Kevin Hartnett's book The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Ma...
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News huggingface 5 months ago
bytedance-research/Lance Hugging Face
We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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News Firethering 5 months ago
ByteDance Open-Sourced a 3B Model for Images, Video, Editing, and Reasoning
Most multimodal AI systems today are still collections of separate tools pretending to be one product. One model generates images. Another edits them. A different one handles video. The entire stack works, but it often feels stitched together behind the s
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News DuckDB 5 months ago
Test-Driving the Lance Lakehouse Format in DuckDB
Lance is an open lakehouse format with a design geared toward AI workloads. LanceDB and DuckLabs have partnered to bring you fast vector and hybrid search directly from DuckDB SQL, without leaving your analytical workflow. In this post, we explain what La
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News lancedb.com 10 months ago
From BI to AI: A Modern Lakehouse Stack with Lance and Iceberg
A comparison of where Iceberg and Lance sit in the modern lakehouse stack. We highlight emerging architectures that are bridging the worlds of analytics and AI/ML workloads using these two formats, while being built on the same data foundation.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Lance over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
78/100
Languages
Python
TypeScript
Cloud & platforms
Figma
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Computer Use
Voice Agents
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$140k
Typical range
$96k – $250k
Open positions
5
2 Jobs
Intern 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 2 $96k $96k
Highest paying role Product Engineer $250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Lance By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
52/100
Stable
Open positions
5
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
115 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
40% ▼
Marketing
40% ▲
Industrial Engineering
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Voice Agents to stack Sep 2026
Added Computer Use to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added Figma to stack Aug 2026
Added TypeScript to stack Aug 2026
Added Python to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
Lance
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 20% remote 50-200 est. staff $156k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Marketing, Industrial Engineering
2 Hawkins Lane, San Francisco, 94105
seen since May 2026 company site

Jobs

$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
AI Agents
Computer Use
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$72k – $96k per year • In office • Internship • San Francisco
Python
TypeScript
AI Agents
Computer Use
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