LIFEBOAT LLC

LIFEBOAT LLC is a climate tech company in Champaign, United States, founded in 2022. It has raised $4.0M across 3 rounds, most recently a $1.1M Grant in April 2025.

We don't make HDF5...we make HDF5 better.

Employees
1–10
Founded
2022
Business Model
B2G
Total Funding
$4.0M
Last Round
$1.1M GrantApr 2025
Rounds
3

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About

Lifeboat, LLC was founded to support and advance the open-source HDF5 data management software used widely in scientific and high-performance computing. Headquartered near Champaign, Illinois, the company has extensive HDF5 development expertise and has received multiple Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards from the U.S. Department of Energy to build new HDF5 features such as multi-threaded concurrency, sparse data storage, and encryption, while growing its developer team.

Summary

It lists 1–10 employees. It has raised $4.0M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $1.1M Grant round in Apr 2025.

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Funding History

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GrantSBIR Phase II (DOE)Apr 2025
$1.1M

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