Founder of a listed tool
Chang She
Founder, LanceDB, named behind the LanceDB listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Chang builds
LanceDB B · Retrieval & vector search
Open-source embedded database on the Lance columnar format.
Founder, LanceDB, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Backed by
Y Combinator Theory Ventures CRV Databricks Runway Zero Prime Ventures Swift Ventures
Questions
Who is Chang She?
Chang She founded LanceDB, an open-source serverless vector database for generative AI from Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch. Chang She was previously VP of engineering at Tubi, co-founder and CTO of DataPad, and the second major contributor to the pandas library, after working as a quant at AQR and Barclays.
What does LanceDB make?
Anchor Terminal lists LanceDB from LanceDB. Open-source embedded database on the Lance columnar format.
Who has invested in LanceDB?
The sources our research read name Y Combinator, Theory Ventures, CRV, Databricks, Runway, Zero Prime Ventures and Swift Ventures.
How are Chang's tools graded?
LanceDB is graded B, 65.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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