Lightbits Labs
Lightbits Labs is an American software company based in San Jose, California.
History
Lightbits Labs was founded in 2016 by Avigdor Willenz, Eran Kirzner, Kam Eshghi, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Ofir Efrati, and Fabian Trumper with an initial funding of $10 million. Initially, Lightbits invented and standardized NVMe/TCP standard and built the first commercial NVMe/TCP storage platform.In March 2019, Lightbits Labs received $50 million investment from Dell EMC, Cisco, Micron Technology and others. In November 2019, NVM Express approved the NVMe/TCP storage protocol that was jointly developed by Lightbits. In the same year, Lightbits also released storage software capable of running NVMe over TCP.
In September 2020, Intel made an investment in Lightbits. Later, Lightbits also formed a partnership with Intel to develop a disaggregated storage platform for data centers.
In June 2022, Lightbits received $42 million in a funding round, including from JP Morgan Chase. In October 2022, Lenovo Group also invested in Lightbits.