Unified data platform CtrlB raises $2.5 million in funding led by Chiratae Ventures, others

Unified data platform CtrlB has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round led by Chiratae Ventures, with participation from Equirus, InnovateX Fund, Campus Fund and Point One Capital.

With the fresh capital, the startup will accelerate engineering, R&D and patent filings for its core indexing and compression technology while pursuing enterprise certifications including SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

It will expand its presence across India and the United States, deepen partnerships with cloud and DevOps ecosystems and scale its customer success functions for faster adoption. 

“We believe in the disruptive architecture of CtrlB and its potential to change how observability is done today. With storage and retrieval of telemetry data made 10x better, enterprises will now be able to create comprehensive visibility and increase speed at the same time,“ said Venkatesh Peddi, Managing Director at Chiratae Ventures.

“This investment will allow us to strengthen our platform, deepen R&D, and serve enterprises that need high performance observability at scale. Our customers want better speed, better economics and simpler operations. With this round, we are doubling down on improving our customer experience from onboarding to performance to reliability.” said Adarsh Srivastava, co-founder and CEO of CtrlB. 

CtrlB said its platform stands out for its one-touch ingestion, high-speed indexing and deep compression. Its patent-pending indexing engine enables what it calls ultra-fast search across high-cardinality data, while breakthrough ingestion speeds and up to 200x compression on log and trace workloads significantly reduce storage costs.

The startup said these capabilities help teams retain far more telemetry and run high-volume workloads at a fraction of the cost of traditional observability tools.

Sunder Nookala, Partner, Equirus InnovateX Fund (EIF), said, “With ever increasing data bloat due to MELTs, there is a gap for efficient ways of ingesting petabytes of data at low cost and fastest way of querying such ingested data. We are very excited to partner with CtrlB as it precisely solves for ingestion-storage-querying trinity through its proprietary probabilistic indexing and compression algorithm plus storage-compute as well as compute-compute decoupled design at scale.” 

The startup is preparing a major platform upgrade featuring a redesigned interface, rich dashboards and a powerful correlation engine. It will also patent its indexing technology and build deeper cloud partnerships to strengthen its presence as a foundational observability data engine.