Light Year logo
Light Year logo

Light Year

lightyear.ai
lightyear.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Venture - Series Unknown 2026 • Founded 2017 • Startup
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Venture - Series Unknown 2026 • Founded 2017 • Startup
Actively hiring
Follow
Overview
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$100.8M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$16M
Venture round · Jan 2026 · 8 mo ago
Backers
2
Ludlow Ventures, Ridge Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 16 Raised a round Venture round $16M · SEC Form D Aug 30, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $31.2M · SEC Form D Jul 10, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $3.7M · SEC Form D Sep 4, 2018 Raised a round Venture round $50M · SEC Form D 2017 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jan 2026 $16M — SEC Form D
Venture round Aug 2024 $31.2M — SEC Form D
Venture round Jul 2020 $3.7M — SEC Form D
Venture round Sep 2018 $50M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Lightyear Corp SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Adam LudwinExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Briton YongeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jed McCalebExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Dennis ThankachanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Ludlow Ventures fund Ridge Ventures fund

Overview

Lightyear is the first agentic platform for enterprise telecom, helping teams source faster, reduce costs, and automate work across the telecom lifecycle.

People

Adam Ludwin
Executive Officer, Director
SEC Form D
Briton Yonge
Executive Officer, Director
SEC Form D
Jed McCaleb
Executive Officer, Director
SEC Form D
Dennis Thankachan
Executive Officer, Director
SEC Form D
Keith Rabois
Director
SEC Form D
Ryan Schrack
Director
SEC Form D
Zac Mohring
Director
SEC Form D
Yousuf Khan
Director
SEC Form D
Samuel Garcia
Director
SEC Form D
Zachary Mohring
Director
SEC Form D
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ

Financials

Total raised
$100.8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $16M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $31.2M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $3.7M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $50M Details