About Us

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.

Founders

Di Qi

Di Qi

CEO, Co-Founder

Before Lantern, Di worked at Y Combinator building Work at a Startup, a job board for YC companies, and internal tools.

She previously cofounded Racer, a 15 minute food delivery startup. Before that, she worked on Ads Ranking at Facebook and studied computer science at Princeton.

Narek Galstyan

Narek Galstyan

CTO, Co-Founder

Before Lantern, Narek was a PhD student in distributed systems at UC Berkeley.

He previously worked on core database features at Timescale and R&D at Tanium, and studied computer science at Princeton.

Backed by

Combinator

The House Fund

Wayfinder Ventures

Umur Cubukcu

Founder, Citus Data

Ozgun Erdogan

Founder, Citus Data

Gustaf Alstromer

Partner, Y Combinator

Diana Hu

Partner, Y Combinator

Jared Friedman

Partner, Y Combinator

Sung Ho Choi

Founder, FuboTV