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Lightbend

San Francisco, CA · Founded 2010 · Privately Held (backing)

Developer of a reactive application development platform designed to build message-driven, elastic, resilient and responsive applications. Lightbend is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded in 2010. It was valued at $58 million at its later-stage round in Dec 2024, the last priced event on record. It has raised $170 million across 3 recorded rounds; the latest was a $4 million seed round in Sep 2023.

PMV mark · valuation
$58.0M
Oct 2026
Priced at
its later-stage round
Dec 2024
Total raised
$169.9M
Last round
Seed Round
Sep 2023

Lightbend key facts

as of Oct 2026
  • Developer of a reactive application development platform designed to build message-driven, elastic, resilient and responsive applications.
  • Lightbend is valued at approximately $58.0M as of Oct 2026, set at its later-stage round, Dec 2024; nothing has traded since, per PrivateMarketView’s mark.
  • It has raised $169.9M across 3 recorded rounds; the latest was Seed Round ($4.0M) in Sep 2023.
  • Notable investors include Venture Kick, Bain Capital Ventures, Intel Capital, Greylock, Uncorrelated Ventures — 20 tracked in total.
  • Lightbend has filed 3 Form Ds with the SEC since 2020, most recently Sep 2023 ($4.0M sold to 9 investors).
  • Status: Privately Held (backing).
PrivateMarketView mark
LOW confidence
$58.0M

Valued at $58.0M at its later-stage round, Dec 2024. Nothing has traded since.

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Lightbend funding rounds

3 rounds
Sep 2023Seed Round$4.0MSEC filing▮
Oct 2021Early Stage VC$6.9MSEC filing▮
Feb 2020Early Stage VC$19.0MSEC filing▮
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Lightbend valuation

Lightbend was valued at $58 million at its later-stage round in Dec 2024. That is the last priced event on record: no secondary trade or institutional fund mark has moved the figure since.

How much has Lightbend raised?

Lightbend has raised $170 million in total; 3 of its rounds are on record, from 2020 on. The largest on record was a $6.9 million early-stage round in Oct 2021; the most recent was a $4 million seed round in Sep 2023.

Lightbend has filed 3 Form Ds with the SEC since 2020, most recently in Sep 2023 ($4 million sold to 9 investors).

Lightbend investors

20 investors are on record for Lightbend, including Venture Kick, Bain Capital Ventures, Intel Capital and Greylock. By type, the record holds 7 venture capital firms and 1 growth equity firm. The seed round in Sep 2023 drew 9 investors.

About Lightbend

Developer of a reactive application development platform designed to build message-driven, elastic, resilient and responsive applications. The company's platform is powered by an open-source core and commercial enterprise suite for building scalable reactive systems on an annual subscription, enabling clients to scale on multi-core and cloud computing architectures.

Sector
Information Technology
HQ
San Francisco, CA, United States
Founded
2010
Employees
75
Website
akka.io/
Ownership
Privately Held (backing)

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