Lume

What Lume does

Lume AI, Inc. was a privately held, venture-backed startup that built an AI-powered data integration platform designed to eliminate the manual bottleneck software engineering teams face when onboarding customers with legacy ERPs, custom databases, and heterogeneous schemas. The product applied AI across four sequential tasks — schema discovery, intelligent data mapping suggestions, data quality validation, and automatic generation of dbt transformation code — turning a customer onboarding workflow that previously took days to months into an automated pipeline. The platform was delivered as a hosted, self-serve web service at lume.ai with user accounts and single sign-on (Google OAuth, GitHub), and operated on structured data ingested from third-party platforms via OAuth or access credentials.

The company monetized through auto-renewing monthly subscription plans, with specific price points disclosed only at checkout or in-account; pricing tiers and revenue figures were not publicly posted. Distribution was product-led: customers signed up directly through the website, connected third-party data sources, and ran integration pipelines themselves. The primary customer segment was horizontal — B2B SaaS and software engineering teams needing to integrate customer data — with secondary use among mid-market organizations consolidating data across multiple third-party platforms. Lume was backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst (lead on the 2024 round), Khosla Ventures, Floodgate, and Soma Capital, with total disclosed funding of approximately $4.7 million across a 2023 pre-seed/YC round and a 2024 seed round.

On March 3, 2026, Lume publicly announced it was joining Harvey, with the Lume team folded into Harvey's AI platform for professional workflows; third-party press on March 25, 2026 confirmed Lume as one of Harvey's first acquisitions alongside Hexus, coinciding with Harvey's $200M funding round at an $11B valuation. The standalone Lume product chapter is described as closed.

Name

Lume

Legal name

Lume AI, Inc.

Website

https://www.lume.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lume AI built an AI-powered data integration platform that automated schema discovery, intelligent data mapping, data quality validation, and dbt code generation for B2B software engineering teams; acquired by Harvey in March 2026.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Data Integration Platform

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Engineering, Integration & ETL/ELT Services (BPAEAHAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Data Integration, ETL/ELT & Reverse ETL (BPAMAOAI)

Keywords

• Data integration
• Schema mapping
• AI data pipeline
• ETL automation
• Customer onboarding

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription fees (paid Service plans): Lume AI offered paid aspects of its Service for a fee, structured as auto-renewing subscriptions on a monthly basis unless cancelled. There are no refunds for cancellation, and pricing was governed by Pricing and Payment Terms accessible in the user account/checkout.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Lume is an AI-powered data integration platform that automates the process of connecting software teams with their customers' data. It uses AI to perform automated schema discovery, suggest intelligent data mappings, validate data quality, and automatically generate dbt transformation code, replacing manual integration work that previously took days to months when onboarding a single new customer with legacy ERPs, custom databases, and messy schemas.

Product overview

Lume AI operates a single unified product — the Lume platform — rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Lume is an AI-driven integration service that automates the previously manual bottleneck between software teams and their customers' data: it ingests data from legacy ERPs, custom databases, and messy schemas, then performs schema discovery, intelligent data mapping, data quality validation, and automatic generation of dbt code to stand up integration pipelines. The product is delivered as a hosted web service at lume.ai with user accounts and single sign-on (Google OAuth, GitHub). In March 2026 the company announced that Lume is joining Harvey, marking the close of the standalone Lume chapter and the migration of the team and product into Harvey's broader AI platform. Lume was backed by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Floodgate, and Soma Capital, along with angel investors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lume

Quantifiable outcome

• Turns customer onboarding integration from a process taking days, weeks, or months into a smooth, speedy automated experience.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability7 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• HarveyflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 March 2026Lume AI joined Harvey (announced March 3, 2026) as an acquisition. Per the Lume AI announcement page, the Lume team is folded into Harvey to keep pushing on automating complex, high-stakes work in professional workflows. Harvey's $200M funding round (March 2026) explicitly listed Lume among Harvey's first acquisitions alongside Hexus.
• Google (Google OAuth / Google Analytics)coreTechnology or IntegrationLume supports single sign-on via Google OAuth for user authentication, and uses Google Analytics as a third-party analytics/cookie provider for usage tracking on the Lume website.
• GitHubcoreTechnology or IntegrationLume supports single sign-on via GitHub authentication for user login; GitHub SSO tokens are used to identify users in the Lume system.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Census: Reverse-ETL and operational analytics platform. Comparable to Lume in automating the last mile of customer data movement, with overlap in target B2B engineering and data teams.
• Hightouch: Reverse-ETL platform that syncs warehouse data into operational systems. Adjacent to Lume's integration automation, focused on the opposite direction of the data flow.
• Pipes (Dataloader.io / alternatives): Lightweight SaaS data-pipeline and migration tools used by engineering teams to move and transform data between systems. Comparable in target persona (engineering/ops) and integration use case to Lume.

Direct peers

• Airbyte: Open-source data integration platform with a large connector catalog. Competes with Lume in automating the movement and transformation of customer data from third-party sources into destinations.
• Merge: Unified API for customer-facing integrations (HRIS, CRM, ATS, accounting). Closely comparable to Lume's promise of replacing manual, per-customer integration work with an AI- and API-driven automated onboarding flow.

Broad incumbents

• dbt Labs: Standard for the data transformation layer (dbt), which Lume automatically generates code for. Comparable as the underlying transformation paradigm that Lume targets and accelerates with AI.
• Workato: Enterprise iPaaS for workflow and integration automation. Overlaps with Lume on the integration use case, but with a broader workflow/orchestration portfolio and enterprise GTM.
• Fivetran: Automated data integration / ELT platform that replicates data from source systems into warehouses. Most directly comparable to Lume's AI-driven schema discovery and mapping automation, but operates at a much larger enterprise scale.
• Tray.io: General-purpose iPaaS focused on API-based workflow automation. Comparable to Lume in the integration automation category, but positioned for enterprise IT and ops teams rather than PLG.

Others

• Hexus: Acquired by Harvey alongside Lume and named in Harvey's $200M funding announcement. Relevant as a co-acquired peer that signals the kind of AI-driven product/GTM capabilities Harvey is consolidating.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TryLume
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lume-ai

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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