e6data, founded in 2021 by CEO Vishnu Vasanth, builds a high-performance compute engine for the data lakehouse aimed at breaking vendor lock-in. Its disaggregated, decentralized, Kubernetes-native architecture is format-neutral, working across major lakehouse table formats, cloud providers, and governance frameworks, so enterprises can run analytics and AI workloads without migrating data or rewriting applications. The company claims roughly 5x higher performance and more than 50% total cost of ownership savings versus incumbent query engines. By plugging into existing data platforms rather than replacing them, e6data targets organizations that want faster, cheaper queries while preserving their open data architecture. e6data raised a $10M Series A led by Accel with participation from Beenext and others to scale its engine and go-to-market.