CtrlB, a unified data platform, has raised $2.5 million in its seed funding round led by Chiratae Ventures with participation from Equirus InnovateX Fund, Campus Fund and Point One Capital.
The fresh funds raised will be used to accelerate engineering, R&D and patent filings for its core indexing and compression technology while pursuing enterprise certifications, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001. The company will also 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. The team will grow to 50 to 60 members across distributed systems, DevOps, solution architecture and US-based sales.
Founded in 2023 by Adarsh Srivastava, CtrlB unifies logs, metrics, traces, and security events into a single observability engine built on cloud object storage. The platform uses one-touch ingestion, high-speed indexing, and compression technology designed to reduce storage cost and improve telemetry retention.
The company plans to target over fifty enterprise customers in the next eighteen months across logistics, fintech, ecommerce, and SaaS, and aims to expand into adjacent markets, including APM and log analytics.
CtrlB is preparing a platform upgrade that includes a new interface, dashboards, and a correlation engine, while also strengthening cloud partnerships. The company’s model is built around lowering observability cost and increasing search and ingestion performance for engineering and security teams.
The company targets more than fifty enterprise customers within eighteen months across logistics, fintech, ecommerce and SaaS. Its long-term vision is to become the default observability platform for scale-stage companies, expand into adjacent markets like APM and log analytics and evolve into a full-stack security plus observability cloud supported by a strong developer ecosystem.
Venkatesh Peddi, Managing Director at Chiratae Ventures, said, “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. We’re excited to partner with Adarsh and lead CtrlB’s seed round in their quest to build a truly differentiated technology from India.”
Adarsh Srivastava, co-founder and CEO of CtrlB, said, “This funding marks an important milestone in our journey as our mission is to make high-scale observability affordable, fast and reliable to every engineering team. 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.”
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.”
