San Francisco, CA – August 26, 2025 – Cantilux, the next-generation real-time database platform, today announced it has raised an $8 million seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Accel and prominent angel investors from the data infrastructure ecosystem.
Cantilux positions itself as the world’s only database that seamlessly unifies transactions, analytics, and search in true real time, enabling enterprises to power mission-critical applications without sacrificing speed or scale.
“Databases have always forced companies to choose between transactional integrity, analytic performance, or search speed,” said Brian Davis, founder and CEO of Cantilux. “With Cantilux, we’re removing that tradeoff. Our vision is to give developers a single engine that can handle all three at once — and do it at global scale.”
A New Era for Real-Time Data
Cantilux has quickly gained attention for its striking design and developer-first approach. Its cloud-native platform comes with an intuitive, dark-themed console and built-in monitoring tools, helping teams deploy instantly without complex setup.
The platform promises:
- Unified data operations – Run OLTP, OLAP, and full-text search workloads on the same database.
- Infinite scalability – Scale elastically in the cloud with no manual sharding.
- AI-native design – Engineered to support AI/ML pipelines with low-latency queries.
- Enterprise security – SOC2-ready, with fine-grained access controls and zero-trust architecture.
Early Traction
Since its stealth launch earlier this year, Cantilux has already onboarded 20+ enterprise design partners across fintech, gaming, and e-commerce sectors. Early adopters report query speeds up to 10x faster than traditional systems while reducing infrastructure costs.
“We tested Cantilux against our existing stack and were blown away,” said a CTO of a global fintech company who participated in the private beta. “The ability to consolidate multiple databases into one engine while still delivering millisecond latency is a game-changer.”
The Road Ahead
With fresh capital, Cantilux plans to expand its engineering team, invest heavily in product development, and launch a fully managed cloud service later this year. The company will also extend partnerships with major cloud providers to bring Cantilux to developers worldwide.
About Cantilux
Founded in 2024 by Brian Davis, a veteran database architect, Cantilux is building the world’s first database that unifies transactions, analytics, and search in real time. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company is backed by leading investors and trusted by enterprises that demand performance at scale.
