# Lightup Data

> Lightup Data is a Mountain View-based enterprise data observability company that lets organizations monitor data quality at scale without moving their data. Its no-code platform pushes computation down into existing warehouses and lakehouses like Snowflake and Databricks, using AI-powered anomaly detection to catch data drift, outages, and discrepancies before they reach dashboards or AI models. Founded in 2019 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightup serves enterprises including AMD, Skechers, and KFC.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Mountain View, California, United States
- **Founders:** Manu Bansal (Co-Founder & CEO), Rajiv Ramanathan (Co-Founder & VP of Engineering), Vivek Joshi (Co-Founder & VP of Product)
- **Team size:** ~19-20 employees
- **Products:** Data Observability Platform, AI Anomaly Detection, Zero-Config Auto Metrics, Data Lineage, Data Reconciliation
- **Notable:** Raised $9M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Newland Ventures (2023), $20.7M total funding raised, Named CIOReview Enterprise Data Quality Monitoring Company of the Year 2024

## Products & services

- **Data Observability Platform** — Core platform for monitoring and validating production data pipelines at enterprise scale using a pushdown architecture that runs checks inside the customer's warehouse or lakehouse.
- **AI Anomaly Detection** — Machine learning models that learn normal data behavior and flag drift, outliers, and quality issues automatically - no manual thresholds required.
- **Zero-Config Auto Metrics** — Automatically recommends and generates data quality metrics so teams can start monitoring without configuration.
- **Data Lineage** — Traceability and impact analysis to understand how a data issue propagates downstream.
- **Data Reconciliation** — Identifies discrepancies between data sources and systems.
- **Data Remediation** — Automated workflows to resolve detected data quality issues.
- **Agent & Genie (Beta)** — Agentic and GenAI copilot interfaces that work natively with Claude and Gemini to make data quality conversational.

## Achievements

- Raised $9M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Newland Ventures (2023)
- $20.7M total funding raised
- Named CIOReview Enterprise Data Quality Monitoring Company of the Year 2024
- Listed on the CB Insights AI 100 (2024)
- SOC 2 Type II and ISAE 3000 Type II certified
- Snowflake AI Data Cloud Partner Select
- Nearly 5x year-over-year ARR growth

## Latest updates

- **2023-08** — Closed $9M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Newland Ventures.
- **2024-01** — Named CB Insights AI 100 and CIOReview Company of the Year for enterprise data quality monitoring.
- **2025-01** — Launched Agent and Genie beta - agentic and GenAI copilots working with Claude and Gemini, plus unstructured data quality monitoring.

## Links

- Website: https://lightup.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightupdata
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/lightupdata

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