TL;DR
Lantern (https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern) is a PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications.
We are hiring a core database engineer by October 10, 2023.
More information below:
About the company
Lantern is one of 11 first AI companies to be accepted early into the Y Combinator W2024 batch, and we just raised a $1.6M pre-seed round!
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💡 Our investors include
- Gustaf Alstromer (Group Partner, Y Combinator)
- Jared Friedman (Group Partner, Y Combinator)
- Diana Hu (Group Partner, Y Combinator)
- Umur Cubukcu (Visiting Group Partner, Y Combinator)
- Wayfinder Ventures
- Christopher Golda
- Jeremy Edberg (Employee #1, Reddit)
- Sung Ho Choi (Co-founder, Fubo)
- Shaan Puri (Co-founder, My First Million)
- Chris Prucha (Co-founder, Notion and Origin)
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The founders are two-time Y Combinator founders. We are a team of engineers and builders — and we're full of ambition and energy. We're looking for creative people to join us.
Jeung — CEO
- Co-founder Racer (Y Combinator, S20)
- Princeton, Philosophy
Narek — CTO
- Engineering - Timescale, PhD Computer Science - Berkeley
- Princeton, Computer Science
Di — CTO
- Engineering - Facebook, Y Combinator. Co-founder (Y Combinator, S20)
- Princeton, Computer Science
Varik — Engineer #1
- Head of Engineering - CoinStats, Senior Software Engineer - Deel
- Building software since high school
Where are we today:
Here's a HackerNews post about us posted recently with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37499375
TL;DR
- Better performance and more features than pgvector, the most popular postgreSQL vector database
- Pgvector has been around for 29-months. We got further along in just 2-months!
- We are looking to widen the lead and be the best PostgreSQL database for building vector applications
This is a cool opportunity because:
AI is going to impact every single enterprise in every single industry.
- AI is the fastest growing category of startups.
- Vector databases are the fastest growing category of databases.
- Vector databases allow businesses to tap into unstructured data (audio, images, videos, medial records, documents) and build AI applications.
- We're going to ship super fast.
- We can compensate well, we compensate in the upper band.
Here's who we're looking for:
- Experience with significant projects in C / C++ is a MUST.