Organization
LanceDB
Data platform · San Francisco, California
LanceDB builds data infrastructure for multimodal AI on the Lance columnar format: the open-source LanceDB embedded retrieval library and LanceDB Enterprise, a distributed multimodal lakehouse platform. In November 2025 LanceDB moved the Lance projects into a separate, community-governed lance-format GitHub organization.2110
Key facts
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Legal form
- Unknown
- Founded
- 20226
- Sectors
- Data
What is and isn’t public
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| LanceDB Enterprise (external site: docs.lancedb.com) | Data platform | Distributed multimodal lakehouse platform for search, feature engineering, and training data, reached through db:// connections; set up by contacting LanceDB.21 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| LanceDB OSS (external site: github.com) | Developer tool | Open-source embedded retrieval library with client SDKs for Python, TypeScript, and Rust, published under the Apache License 2.0.28 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Related open artifacts
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Notable documented facts
- LanceDB's November 2025 governance announcement separated the Lance format from its own products: Lance now has its own website (lance.org), GitHub organization (lance-format), and a project management committee drawn from several companies, while LanceDB keeps its own website and lancedb GitHub organization. The post says most contributions to the LanceDB open-source project still come from LanceDB Inc.1011
U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
LanceDB's Y Combinator directory listing gives its location as San Francisco, an undated internship post on LanceDB's own blog describes the company as an early-stage startup based in San Francisco, its customer terms are governed by California law, and its GitHub organization lists the United States as its location. No address-bearing legal page or regulatory filing was found, and the entity name differs between the website footer (LanceDB Inc.) and the privacy policy (LanceDB Systems, Inc.), so no legal name is recorded.653714
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