LanceDB

LanceDB (operating at lancedb.com) is a multimodal lakehouse platform engineered for AI, accelerating large-scale data curation and feature engineering to help teams build better models faster. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, LanceDB provides a developer-friendly, open-source vector database that can be run locally or on a custom server, offering lightning-fast, scalable, and production-ready vector search capabilities. Under the hood, it unifies AI data in an open format, enabling seamless integration of text, images, and other modalities within a single infrastructure. This allows developers and data teams to streamline AI/ML workflows, from data ingestion to model training, without the complexity of managing disparate systems. The company has raised funding, including a Series A round, to further develop its multimodal lakehouse vision.