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Overview

Lightyear is a London investment company founded in 2019 that offers commission-free access to global stocks, funds and bonds. Its app was built by former payments engineers and passes on interest on uninvested cash rather than retaining it. The company operates across the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area.

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Meta PlanetVia a fund
171 portfolio companies: SpaceX, Protocol Labs, Zama and 168 more
634 portfolio companies
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News BorisTheBrave.Com 6 months ago
The Lightyear Race
Earth, proudly twinned with Rigel, went the joke. When intelligent life on Rigel was first discovered, it was a sensation. The newly christened Really Improbably Large Interferometer had just picke…
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News blog.lexfo.fr 2 years ago
Introducing lightyear, a new way to dump PHP files
In this blog post, we describe new techniques to dump PHP files leveraging filters, and a tool that does it.
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News TechCrunch 2 years ago
This $600 Buzz Lightyear toy is the most realistic yet
Do you have $600 burning an asteroid-sized hole in your pocket? If so, the new Buzz Lightyear robot might be for you. A collaboration between Pixar and smart toy company Robosen, the new Buzz is fully loaded with more than 3,000 tiny parts, 75 microchips,
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News CNET 2 years ago
This $600 Buzz Lightyear Is Not a Toy: Robosen Brought 'Toy Story' to Life and I'm Blown Away
I've been playing with Robosen's new voice-controlled, programmable Buzz Lightyear robot, and the details are impeccable.
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News New Atlas 2 years ago
$45K EV smuggles a 620-mile solid-state battery out of the lab
IM motors has decided that semi solid-state batteries are ready for prime time. In an omen of what Western automakers will need to contend with, it's now launched a futuristic luxury coupe with a next-gen battery pack and crab-walking capability.
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News InsideEVs 3 years ago
Want A Lightyear 0 But Don
Lightyear is selling off a wide array of assets in an attempt to raise enough capital to begin production of the 2.
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News Electrek 3 years ago
Lightyear tries to claw back from bankruptcy as new company using Solar EV tech as collateral
Less than a month after declaring bankruptcy, the remaining team at Lightyear has announced plans for a new company entirely...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Lightyear over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Languages
SQL
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~6 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.
Marketing
50% ▼
Operations
50% ▲

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
London
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London United Kingdom
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Operations
White Collar Factory, 1 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, GB
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings
Tallinn Estonia
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Marketing
Volta 1
seen since Sep 2026 job postings