Lightbend

Reliable AI - Akka is the Agentic AI Platform for Enterprises

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2011 · $62.0M raised

Employees
201–500
Founded
2011
Business Model
B2B
Website
akka.io
Total Funding
$62.0M
Last Round
$25.0M Series DMar 2020
Rounds
4

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About

Akka (legally Lightbend, Inc. dba Akka) is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed, message-driven applications, with self-healing infrastructure: during maintenance, its clusters can shut themselves down and fully recreate themselves without loss of data. Enterprises including Manulife use Akka to build a secure, scalable foundation for high-volume, trusted AI-powered applications, and media company Tubi has used Akka and reactive streams to power customer experiences in the video-on-demand space.

Summary

Lightbend is a Developer Tools company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2011. It has raised $62.0M in total across 4 rounds, most recently a $25.0M Series D round in Mar 2020. Investors include Greylock Partners, Intel Capital and Shasta Ventures.

Tech & App Stack

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Funding History

Series DSeries DMar 2020
$25.0M

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