CtrlB
Category: AI Infrastructure
Diskless observability and security data lake on customer object storage — unifying logs, traces, metrics and security events for humans and AI agents at petabyte scale. CtrlB was founded in 2022. The company is led by Adarsh Srivastava. Based in Bengaluru, India. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $2.5M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Chiratae Ventures, Campus Fund, Equirus, InnovateX Fund, Point One Capital.
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- Bengaluru, India
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $2.5M
Value proposition
Reduces observability costs by up to 80% and improves performance through a 200x data compression ratio, while enabling real-time debugging without the need for code redeployment.
Products and solutions
Unified Diskless Data Lake, Real-time Debugging & Dynamic Instrumentation Tool, Security Observability Module, Telemetry Correlation & Analytics Engine, Enterprise Dashboard & Visualization Interface
Unique value
Diskless lake on open Parquet in the customer's object store with proprietary indexing/compression (up to 200x) and an MCP endpoint so AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) query full telemetry history unmetered in ~500ms.
Target customer
DevOps teams, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), Security Operations (SecOps), and large-scale enterprises with high telemetry data volumes.
Industries served
Information Technology & Services, Cybersecurity, Software Development, Fintech, Cloud Infrastructure
Technology advantage
Proprietary probabilistic indexing and compression technology that achieves up to 200x compression, significantly lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) compared to traditional disk-heavy observability tools.
How they differentiate
Utilizes a proprietary 'diskless' data engine and probabilistic indexing to achieve 200x data compression and 80% lower TCO. It features dynamic instrumentation, allowing developers to add logs and traces in production without code redeployment or service restarts.
Main competitors
Datadog, Honeycomb, ClickHouse / ClickStack
Key partnerships
Chiratae Ventures (Lead Investor; Sonic DeepTech cohort), Campus Fund, Equirus, InnovateX Fund, Point One Capital, Cloud object storage integrations (AWS S3 / GCS / Azure)
Notable customers
Zepto, GoComet, Blitz, OnBe, NeverInstall, Coreworks
Major milestones
Secured $2.5M Seed funding led by Chiratae Ventures in November 2025, Developed patent-pending probabilistic indexing and compression technology, Launched unified diskless data lake for real-time observability and security, Raised Pre-seed funding from Campus Fund in March 2024
Growth metrics
Team ~17–18 employees (LinkedIn/Tracxn/Crustdata mid-2026); still Seed-stage. Seed-era targets were $1M ARR / 50+ enterprise customers in 18 months and headcount to 50–60.
Market positioning
High-efficiency observability data lake for telemetry-heavy enterprises and AI agents
Geographic focus
India, North America
Patents and IP
Patent-pending status for its core probabilistic indexing and compression technology.
About Adarsh Srivastava
Adarsh Srivastava is a technocrat with a strong background in distributed systems and adtech. Prior to founding CtrlB, he served as an Engineer at Palantir Technologies and worked in the Adtech division at Glance (InMobi Group). He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, where he studied Bioengineering.
Latest news about CtrlB
- CtrlB has secured 2.5 million USD in seed funding led by Chiratae Ventures for its pivot into the data observability sector. By offering data ingestion at 0.2 USD per GB, the startup directly addresse
- Unified data platform CtrlB secured 2.5 million USD in seed funding led by Chiratae Ventures to scale its diskless data lake architecture. The startup utilizes patent-pending indexing to reduce storag
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Official website: https://ctrlb.ai/