For engineering and security teams drowning in logs, metrics, and endless dashboards, observability has quietly become one of the biggest cost and complexity drivers inside modern companies. CtrlB, a young data platform startup, believes it’s time for a reset — and investors seem to agree.
The Bengaluru- and US-based startup has raised $2.5 million in seed funding, led by Chiratae Ventures with participation from Equirus, InnovateX Fund, Campus Fund, and Point One Capital. The capital comes at a moment when enterprises are struggling with ballooning storage bills and scattered observability tools.
Founded in 2023 by Adarsh Srivastava, CtrlB is building what it calls a unified, diskless data lake platform — one that brings logs, metrics, traces, and security events under a single observability engine built entirely on cloud object storage. Using one-touch ingestion, high-speed indexing, and compression technology, CtrlB aims to cut storage costs dramatically while allowing teams to retain telemetry longer.
The startup says it will use the funds to scale its platform, accelerate R&D, file patents around its indexing and compression breakthroughs, and secure SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications. CtrlB also plans to expand its team to 50–60 specialists across distributed systems, DevOps, solution architecture, and sales, while deepening partnerships in the cloud and DevOps ecosystem.
The company is already gearing up for a major platform upgrade featuring a new interface, dashboards, and a correlation engine — a step toward making observability more intuitive and accessible for fast-growing tech teams.
Over the next 18 months, CtrlB aims to onboard 50+ enterprise customers across logistics, fintech, ecommerce, SaaS, and adjacent markets like APM and log analytics. For a space notorious for expensive tools and fragmented data, CtrlB wants to promise something simpler: fast search, low storage costs, and observability without the overwhelm.
-By Muskan Dengra
