Lightbits Labs

Lightbits Labs is a privately held American software company headquartered in San Jose, California, focused on delivering high-performance, cost-efficient, and scalable data storage solutions for various cloud environments. The company's mission is to simplify high-performance elastic block storage for any cloud, driving digital data center transformation.

Lightbits Labs' core offerings include LightOS, a software-defined block storage solution, and LightInferra, a KV cache engine specifically optimized for AI workloads. The company is recognized as the inventor and standardizer of the NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) protocol, which enables high-speed data access over standard Ethernet networks. Their solutions cater to market segments such as financial services, service providers, e-commerce, and AI cloud providers, supporting demanding applications like AI inference, large language models (LLM), real-time analytics, and transactional workloads. Lightbits' products integrate seamlessly with cloud-native environments including Kubernetes, VMware, OpenStack, and OpenShift.

Led by Co-Founder and CEO Eran Kirzner, Lightbits Labs has demonstrated significant growth, reporting record-breaking performance in Q1 2025 with a 4.8X increase in software sales. The company has received industry recognition, including being named to the CRN Storage 100 list and winning a StorageNewsletter Award for Connectivity and Networking in April 2026. Lightbits Labs has also been featured on Forbes' list of America's Best Startup Employers and recently partnered with JetStor in March 2026 to enhance software-defined storage for private clouds.