AI infrastructure

Lantern

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Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Lantern is the easiest way to build AI applications using Postgres.

We started Lantern because we believe AI is going to impact every single enterprise in every single industry. We want to allow every company to tap into their unstructured data to build better applications.

With Lantern Cloud, developers have access to everything they need to build an AI application: embedding generation, vector compression, vector search, efficient indexing, and more. All on top of the database they already know, Postgres, and using infrastructure that scales to billions.

Check out our code on Github: https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Di Qi

Founder

I'm working on Lantern. We're building the best platform to develop AI applications. Before Lantern, I worked at Y Combinator, on my own startups, and at Facebook. I studied computer science at Princeton, and grew up in Americus, Georgia.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Narek Galstyan

Founder

Now building the only database you'll need for your AI applications. I was an early engineer at Timescale, a billion-dollar Postgres company, where I contributed core features. I did my undergrad at Princeton, where I built a safe OS schedule in Rust for my thesis. More recently, I was a PhD Student at UC Berkeley working on distributed systems.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2023 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

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