Lancedb
lancedb.com
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Databases & DBMS
Data Warehouses & Lakehouses
Vector Search & RAG
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$49M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$30M
Series A · Jun 2025 · 15 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
11
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Y Combinator, CRV
The money's age
Due for its next round
15 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
22/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.31%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
18
best: 151 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Jun 2025 | $30M | — | lancedb.com |
| Seed | May 2024 | $8M | Es | SiliconANGLE |
| Venture round | May 2024 | $11M | — | Venturebeat |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
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How Lancedb hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Lancedb scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
News
Data Loading for AI/ML: A Comprehensive Guide
A deep dive into data loading for model training - the three pipeline stages, parallelism strategies, shuffling, caching, resumability, and how LanceDB's StreamingDataset fits in.
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Semantic Memory for Hermes Agent with LanceDB
Introducing a new LanceDB-backed memory plugin that gives Hermes Agent durable, semantic recall across sessions, with benchmarks and a hands-on remember/recall/forget walkthrough.
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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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Report
RAG Isn't One-Size-Fits-All: Here's How to Tune It for Your Use Case
Great RAG comes from a tight iteration loop. Learn how to systematically improve each layer of your RAG system using Kiln and LanceDB.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lancedb over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
55
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python100%
Rust69%
C++15%
Java8%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch31%
Ray31%
Flink23%
OpenTelemetry23%
Databases
Delta Lake31%
Apache Iceberg15%
Apache Hudi8%
ClickHouse8%
Cloud & platforms
Runway85%
Kubernetes46%
AWS38%
Azure38%
AI & ML
Midjourney85%
LLM8%
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55 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$200k – $255k
Open positions
11
11
Jobs
Senior
81.8%
Staff
9.1%
Architect
9.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 9 | $250k | $200k – $255k |
| Staff | 1 | $250k | $250k |
| Architect | 1 | $250k | $250k |
Highest paying role
AI Research Engineer
$255k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
11
1 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
58 days
faster than 27% 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.
Solutions
25% ▼
AI/ML
13% ▲
Product
13% ▲
Finance
13% ▲
HR
13% ▼
Customer Success
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Post-training to stack
Sep 2026
Added World Models to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLMOps to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon S3 to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added Edge AI to stack
Aug 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 2026
Added Feature Store 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
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $250k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
Jobs
$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Rust
Delta Lake
Apache Kafka
LanceDB
AI/ML
Spark
Airflow
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Flink
TensorFlow
PyTorch
RAG
Ray
Feast
LLMOps
Feature Store
Edge AI
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Google GKE
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Apply
$150k – $255k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • United States
Python
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
PyTorch
LLM
Runway
Post-training
World Models
Apply
$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • United States
Python
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
Runway
World Models
Apply
$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • United States
Python
Rust
C++
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
Runway
World Models
Apply
$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • United States
Python
Rust
Delta Lake
Apache Kafka
LanceDB
AI/ML
Spark
Airflow
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
RAG
Runway
Ray
Feature Store
World Models
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
GitHub
Apply
$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • United States
Python
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
Runway
World Models
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
Vercel
Kubernetes
Apply
$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • United States
Python
Rust
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
Runway
Feature Store
World Models
DevOps
GCP
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Apply
$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • United States
Python
Java
Rust
C++
Scala
PyTorch C++
Databases
ClickHouse
Apache Iceberg
Delta Lake
Presto
LanceDB
Apache Hudi
Trino
AI/ML
Hadoop
Spark
JAX
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
Flink
PyTorch
Runway
Ray
World Models
Apply