Lancedb
Databases & DBMS · Data Warehouses & Lakehouses
$38Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
8open roles
$250kmedian advertised pay
$30Mlatest round · Series A · Jun 2025 · 16 mo ago
Overview
The multimodal lakehouse for AI, accelerating large-scale data curation and feature engineering so teams can build better models faster.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 8 open roles at Lancedb. Lancedb is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It has raised $38M in 2 funding rounds. The latest round is Series A of $30M, announced in 2025. The median pay stated in its open roles is $250k, across 9 postings that state pay.
- Open roles
- 8Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $38MSum of 2 equity rounds Alion knows
- Latest round
- Series A · $30M · Jun 24, 2025Press report · lancedb.com
- Median advertised pay
- $250kPay stated in 9 open postings
- Technologies in its job postings
- 61Named in its job postings
How Lancedb hires
Truth index
A 85/100
Median time to fill
82 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
40%
Reposted roles
0%
Lancedb scores A 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, 40% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 82 days. 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
Funding and backers
Total raised
$38M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$30M
Series A · Jun 2025 · 16 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
9
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Y Combinator, CRV
The money's age
Due for its next round
16 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
48/100
hiring for its size, in the news, rising traction
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
Jun 24, 2025
Raised a round Series A $30M
May 15, 2024
Raised a round Seed $8M · Venturebeat
Sep 7, 2023
On the Hacker News front page LLMs, RAG, and the missing storage layer for AI · 151 points
Jan 2022
Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.31%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
19
best: 151 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Jun 2025 | $30M | — | lancedb.com |
| Seed | May 2024 | $8M | — | Venturebeat |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
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Jobs
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Rust
C++
Scala
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$160k – $205k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp
Python
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
Runway
World Models
DevOps
GitHub
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$180k – $250k per year · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
Java
Rust
C++
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
Runway
World Models
DevOps
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Linux
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$180k – $250k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 8+ years exp
Python
Rust
TypeScript
SQL
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
Midjourney
LLM
Runway
World Models
Machine Learning
DevOps
Git
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$150k – $255k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
PyTorch
LLM
Runway
Post-training
World Models
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$180k – $250k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
Runway
World Models
Apply
$180k – $250k per year · In office · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
Rust
C++
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
Runway
World Models
Apply
$180k – $250k per year · In office · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
Rust
LanceDB
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Midjourney
Runway
Feature Store
World Models
DevOps
GCP
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
SLI/SLO/SLA
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$205k – $255k
Open positions
8
8
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 8 | $250k | $205k – $255k |
Highest paying role
AI Research Engineer
$255k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Lancedb
By role, level and city, against the market · 8 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
70/100
Growing
Open positions
8
2 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
83 days
faster than 14% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+175%
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
20% ▲
Product
20% ▼
Marketing
20% ▲
AI/ML
10% ▼
DevOps
10% ▲
Finance
10% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Discord to stack
Oct 2026
Added Git to stack
Oct 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack
Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Oct 2026
Added Reddit to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Ads to stack
Oct 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Oct 2026
Added Claude to stack
Oct 2026
Added Apollo to stack
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
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
61
Postings analysed
17
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Languages
Python100%
Rust65%
C++24%
Java18%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch24%
Ray24%
Flink18%
OpenTelemetry18%
Databases
Delta Lake24%
Apache Iceberg18%
Apache Hudi12%
ClickHouse12%
Cloud & platforms
Runway94%
Kubernetes35%
AWS24%
Azure24%
AI & ML
Midjourney94%
LLM12%
Claude6%
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News
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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
5 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 50-200 est. staff $251k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, DevOps, Security
How to cite this page
Alion, "Lancedb: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/lancedb
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