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Total raised
$111M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$70M
Series B · Apr 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
3
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The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
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this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 25
Launched Lightrun Launches Industry's First AI SRE With Live Dynamic Runtime Context · The Manila Times
Apr 28, 2025
Raised a round Series B $70M · TechCrunch
Jul 31, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $18M · SiliconANGLE
May 25, 2021
Raised a round Series A $23M
May 24, 2021
Recognition Lightrun Named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor · businesswire.com
Mar 3, 2021
Launched Lightrun Launches Debugger Optimized for Remotely Troubleshooting On-Premises Software Installations · businesswire.com
2019
Founded
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Apr 2025 | $70M | — | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Jul 2024 | $18M | — | SiliconANGLE |
| Series A | May 2021 | $23M | — | businesswire.com |
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Overview
Lightrun is an Israeli developer observability company that lets engineers add logs and metrics to running production code. Its agents insert instrumentation on demand without redeploying or restarting services. The product is used to debug live systems where reproducing an issue locally is impractical.
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Why AI Agent Orchestration Needs Runtime Context Between Agents
Every multi-agent system depends on one agent handing its output to the next, and nothing in the architecture confirms that the handoff carried what it should have. Orchestration adds a failure surface that single-agent architecture doesn't have: a point
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Why AI Agent Architecture Needs a Runtime Context Layer
Every AI agent architecture diagram shows the same five layers: perception, memory, reasoning, action, and feedback. Each layer assumes the one before it worked correctly, and none of them can confirm that once the agent runs against live production data.
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Why Static Reachability Isn't Enough for CVE Remediation
Most CVE remediation tools can tell you that a vulnerability could be exploited. Few can confirm whether it actually is. A scanner flags the same CVE in two services and marks both as vulnerable. Only one of them ever runs the flawed code in production. T
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Why Internal Agents Must Be Rebuilt with Runtime Context
As we entered 2026, enterprises raced to build internal AI engineering agents, automating incident response, code review, and support. The investment was real, but 88% of these pilots never reached production, and teams are now in rebuild mode, trying to
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SDLC Phases and the Reliability Gap AI Can't Close
Decisions in each SDLC phase from planning to design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance are made without sight of live production behavior. AI coding agents are widening that visibility gap faster, working faster than human engineers ever
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Best PR Review Tools for AI-Generated Code (2026)
Most PR review tools answer one question: does this code look correct? They scan the diff, flag known patterns, catch security violations, and post inline comments before merge, which is useful, but only half the review. The other half is behavioral: does
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Deterministic vs Probabilistic AI Engineering Explained
Deterministic processes carry one guarantee: the same input will produce the same output. That guarantee built the entire observability stack. AI broke that contract by reasoning in terms of probability. The same input can now produce different outputs, w
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How AI Agents Are Changing Each Agile SDLC Phase
The Agile software development lifecycle was designed to surface problems early, with short sprints, iterative testing, and continuous integration built on the premise that faster feedback loops produce better software. AI coding tools have changed the ve
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New Feature: Automatic Snapshots When Latency Spikes
We've released an exciting new Lightrun capability: set a duration threshold on your Tic & Toc or Method Duration metrics, and Lightrun will automatically capture a snapshot whenever execution exceeds it. It takes moments to configure, and gives engineers
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Why AI Observability Isn't Enough for Coding Agents
Observability platforms collect pre-instrumented logs, metrics, and distributed traces to monitor production systems and surface failures to human engineers. The adoption of AI into engineering has led observability providers to offer those same signals t
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lightrun over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
12
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
86/100AI adopter
Languages
C#
C++
Java
Node JS
Python
JavaScript
AI & ML
LLM
Practices & domains
AI Agents
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Context Engineering to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
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Cities
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1
Countries
2
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New York
United States
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New York, NY 10001, USA
Jobs
≈ $101k – $257k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Tel Aviv
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