Lightspark
lightspark.com
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Blockchain Infrastructure
Payment Processing & Gateways
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Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
7
Andreessen Horowitz, NFX
Momentum
59/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
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Sep 26
Launched Lightspark Launches Cards Playground to Help Companies Build Stablecoin-Backed Visa Cards · CoinGape
Apr 29
Partnership Lightspark Partners with Visa to Bring Stablecoin and Bitcoin-Linked Debit Cards Worldwide · The Manila Times
May 7, 2025
Partnership Revolut and Lightspark Join Forces to Speed Bitcoin Payments · PYMNTS.com
Aug 29, 2024
Launched Lightspark Introduces Instant Bitcoin Lightning Payments For U.S. Businesses With New Feature · Bitcoin Magazine
May 19, 2023
Launched Lightspark Launches SDK That Allows Any Business to Offer a Lightning Wallet · 24/7 Wall St.
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
4
best: 2 points
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Andreessen Horowitz 
NFX 
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Coatue 
Felix Capital 
Matrix 
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Overview
Lightspark is a payments infrastructure company founded in 2022 by former Meta executives and based in Los Angeles. It builds enterprise access to the Bitcoin Lightning Network, including routing, node management and a universal money address standard. The firm targets banks, exchanges and remittance providers seeking instant cross-border settlement.
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Lightspark Launches Cards Playground to Help Companies Build Stablecoin-Backed Visa Cards
Lightspark CEO David Marcus unveils Cards Playground, enabling companies to build and test stablecoin-backed Visa cards.
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Lightspark becomes the first company licensed under MiCA in Estonia, opening a regulated path for open payments across Europe
LOS ANGELES, July 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Lightspark Payments Europe AS announced it received a crypto-asset service provider (CASP)...
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Introducing AI Agent Support for Grid Global Accounts
Your users can now connect their AI agents to their Grid Global Account, with scoped permissions, spend limits, and Grid-managed policy enforcement.
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Lightspark Partners with Visa to Bring Stablecoin and Bitcoin-Linked Debit Cards Worldwide
Partnership will enable global Visa card issuance powered by stablecoins, Bitcoin, and fiat
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Revolut Integrates Lightspark for Lightning-Fast Bitcoin Payments in the UK and Europe
Bitcoin MagazineRevolut Integrates Lightspark for Lightning-Fast Bitcoin Payments in the UK and EuropeRevolut partners with Lightspark to bring faster, cheaper Bitcoin payments to users in the UK and Europe, leveraging the Lightning Network and Universal
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Revolut Integrates Lightspark For Lightning-Fast Bitcoin Payments In The UK And Europe
Revolut partners with Lightspark to bring faster, cheaper Bitcoin payments to users in the UK and Europe, leveraging the Lightning Network and Universal Money Address for seamless, real-time transactions.
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Revolut and Lightspark Join Forces to Speed Bitcoin Payments
Revolut and cryptocurrency infrastructure firm Lightspark have teamed to speed bitcoin transactions in Europe and the U.K.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lightspark over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
19
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
TypeScript
Databases
BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Databricks
Kubernetes
Looker
AI & ML
LLM
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19 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$69k
Typical range
$54k – $238k
Open positions
7
7
Jobs
Middle
28.6%
Senior
57.1%
Staff
14.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 2 | $69k | $69k – $69k |
| Senior | 4 | $132k | $54k – $238k |
| Staff | 1 | $225k | $225k |
Highest paying role
Senior Software Engineer, Data & AI
$238k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Lightspark
By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
82/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
7
5 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
140 days
faster than 10% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 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.
Finance
38% ▲
Legal
25% ▲
Backend
13% ▲
DevOps
13% ▼
Management
13% ▲
Actively hiring for Finance (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Tallinn
Oct 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added TypeScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added Snowflake to stack
Sep 2026
Added Prompt Engineering to stack
Sep 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Databricks to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Los Angeles
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Los Angeles
United States
HQ
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff $224k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Finance, Management
Tallinn
Estonia
Corporate office
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $61k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Legal
Jobs
$200k – $238k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Los Angeles
Python
TypeScript
Snowflake
Databricks
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
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