Organization

LanceDB

LanceDB is a data platform company headquartered in San Francisco, California6 5. No open models or tools from LanceDB are in this catalog yet; its documented products are listed below.

Documented roles: Data platform

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.2 1 10

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Oct 1, 2026

Using this organization’s offerings

Ownership, delivery, and openness answer different questions. Publicly traded does not mean open source; privately held does not mean closed.

The detailed audience, self-hosting, pricing, and restrictions review has not yet been completed. Consult the sourced product records below and the publisher’s current terms. Missing detail means unknown, not unavailable.

Key facts

Website: lancedb.com (external site: lancedb.com)
Ownership (separate from openness): Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
Legal form: Unknown
Headquarters: San Francisco, California6 5
Founded: 20226
Sectors: Data

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

The LanceDB embedded library and the Lance format are published under the Apache License 2.0; LanceDB Enterprise is a commercial platform.8 9 2

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.

Other products

LanceDB: 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.2 1	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 2.0.2 8	Sep 29, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

No artifact records in this catalog list LanceDB. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.

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.10 11

What this catalog does not know

Unknown means the sources reviewed for this record do not document it. It is not evidence that something does not exist.

Legal name: not documented in the sources reviewed for this record.
Official careers page: not verified by this catalog.
Open artifacts: none from this organization are in the catalog yet.

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U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

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.6 5 3 7 1 4

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

1.
LanceDB | Multimodal Lakehouse for AI (external site: lancedb.com)
LanceDB · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
LanceDB - LanceDB (external site: docs.lancedb.com)
LanceDB · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026
3.
LanceDB Terms and Conditions (PDF) (external site: 242023405.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na2.net)
LanceDB · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
4.
LanceDB Privacy Policy (PDF) (external site: 242023405.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na2.net)
LanceDB · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
5.
My Summer Internship Experience at LanceDB (external site: lancedb.com)
LanceDB · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
LanceDB: Open-source, serverless vectordb for production-scale generative AI | Y Combinator (external site: ycombinator.com)
Y Combinator · Other · accessed Sep 29, 2026
7.
LanceDB on GitHub (external site: github.com)
LanceDB · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026
8.
lancedb/lancedb LICENSE (external site: github.com)
LanceDB · License · accessed Sep 29, 2026
9.
lance-format/lance LICENSE (external site: github.com)
Lance community · License · accessed Sep 29, 2026
10.
Building the Future Together: Introducing Lance Community Governance (external site: lancedb.com)
LanceDB · Announcement · published Nov 18, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
11.
Lance Community Governance — Lance (external site: lance.org)
Lance community · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026
12.
Official careers link (redirects to its job board) (external site: lancedb.com)
LanceDB · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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@misc{usasi_lancedb,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {LanceDB},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/lancedb/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-01}
}

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