---
type: Organization
title: Larkspur
description: Company behind Skylight, a real-time analytics dashboard.
resource: raw/announcement.md
tags:
- larkspur
- company
- saas
timestamp: '2026-07-16T14:53:35Z'
citadel_version: 0.3.0
---

Larkspur is the company that makes [Skylight](../systems/skylight.md), a real-time analytics
dashboard.[^s1]

[Priya Nadkarni](../persons/priya-nadkarni.md) founded Larkspur in 2021 in Lisbon, after growing
frustrated that other analytics products calling themselves "real-time" never actually felt
real-time; she and a small founding group set out to build the tool they wished existed.[^s4]

As of the Skylight 2.0 general-availability milestone on 1 April 2026, Larkspur had a team of
around 30 people.[^s1] By a 14 July 2026 interview, Nadkarni described the team as 28 people,
saying the company has stayed deliberately lean on purpose.[^s5]

[Priya Nadkarni](../persons/priya-nadkarni.md) is Larkspur's founder and CEO.[^s1]

As of March 2026, Larkspur was hiring for a Senior Platform Engineer role; [Dana
Kessler](../persons/dana-kessler.md) applied for the position.[^s2]

[Sofia Ruiz](../persons/sofia-ruiz.md) works in Larkspur's Support team; in February 2026 she
diagnosed and fixed a customer-reported bug in [Skylight](../systems/skylight.md).[^s3]

In a 14 July 2026 interview on The Build Loop podcast, Nadkarni said Larkspur has been
profitable since its first month and has "never had a month in the red," attributing this
discipline to staying small and charging for something customers need.[^s6] This is a
self-promotional financial claim made by the company's own founder; no independent source in
this corpus corroborates Larkspur's profitability, so it should be read as Larkspur's own
account rather than a verified fact.[^llm1]

## Change Log

- 2026-04-01: team was around 30 people, per the Skylight 2.0 GA announcement.[^s1]
- 2026-07-14: team is 28 people, per Nadkarni's interview on The Build Loop podcast.[^s5]

## See also

- [Skylight](../systems/skylight.md)
- [Priya Nadkarni](../persons/priya-nadkarni.md)
- [Dana Kessler](../persons/dana-kessler.md)
- [Sofia Ruiz](../persons/sofia-ruiz.md)

## Sources

[^s1]: [raw/announcement.md](../../raw/announcement.md), lines 1-24 — Skylight 2.0 GA announcement (ingested 2026-07-15)
[^s2]: [raw/application-cover-letter.md](../../raw/application-cover-letter.md), line 9 — Kessler's cover letter applying for the Senior Platform Engineer role (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s3]: [raw/forum-support-thread.md](../../raw/forum-support-thread.md), lines 55-57 — Ruiz posts as Larkspur Support on the Skylight Support forum (ingested 2026-07-15)
[^s4]: [raw/interview-transcript-founder.md](../../raw/interview-transcript-founder.md), line 13 — founding story: 2021, Lisbon, motivation (ingested 2026-07-14)
[^s5]: [raw/interview-transcript-founder.md](../../raw/interview-transcript-founder.md), line 21 — current team size and leanness philosophy (ingested 2026-07-14)
[^s6]: [raw/interview-transcript-founder.md](../../raw/interview-transcript-founder.md), lines 33-37 — profitability claim (ingested 2026-07-14)
[^llm1]: LLM - self-promotional financial claim by the company's founder, not independently corroborated in this corpus (added 2026-07-14)
