Manu Bansal
CEO and Founder of Lightup
Dear Data Community,
At Lightup, we’re focused on modernizing Data Quality Monitoring for enterprise organizations like yours. Our mission is bold yet simple: To make Data Quality accessible and actionable for all stakeholders, bridging the gap between business needs and technical capabilities.
Our journey began with a realization: The role of data graduated beyond driving business intelligence (BI) and analytics to powering operations and AI, creating new challenges and requirements as companies raced to automate and monitor production-grade data pipelines. However, legacy Data Quality tools fell short and failed to scale.
That was the lightbulb moment when we saw a critical gap in the market — the absence of self-service tools for non-technical business professionals, such as analysts and data stewards, to run domain-specific Data Quality Checks at scale, without requiring specialized engineers.
We’re here to meet that need, dedicated to solving Data Quality Monitoring at scale with no-code simplicity and unprecedented flexible control that ensures long-term success — a breakthrough combination you can’t find anywhere else.
We believe in democratizing Data Quality, breaking down barriers between technical tools and non-technical business professionals. We envision a world where Data Quality isn’t siloed or confined to data engineers, because scaling Data Quality coverage is only possible if it’s a shared responsibility involving business stakeholders, data consumers, and data teams.
Using the latest advancements in AI/ML, Lightup’s framework is based on three pillars, designed to handle the complexities of enterprise Data Quality Monitoring:
- Usability: Lightup offers easy-to-use no-code/low-code checks, with out-of-the-box automation to reduce manual efforts, streamlining deployment from months to minutes.
- Scalability: Lightup’s signature pushdown architecture leverages the scalability of the underlying data platform where data resides to compute queries in place, without ever moving or copying data.
- Flexibility: The Lightup API and SDK enable seamless integrations and workflows across the modern data stack to meet unique enterprise customization requirements.
But our mission goes beyond technology. Core to our principles, we believe governance is critical in enterprise environments.
It’s simple: Everyone should have access to trustworthy data, but if the data is questionable, they should also have self-service tools to check and define the subtleties of good and bad data — without waiting in an IT service queue.
Join us in our mission to democratize Data Quality, making it more accessible for a broader range of data consumers to drive operational efficiency, reliable data assets, and AI innovations.
Thank you for considering Lightup as your Data Quality Monitoring partner. We’re excited to support the next phase in your journey, where bad data isn’t passively tolerated but proactively addressed, monitored, and resolved — together.
To your success,
Manu Bansal
CEO and Founder of Lightup