Lighter Capital
VC Fund
Seattle, United States
Lighter Capital is a fintech company that has created a new fundraising path for early-stage tech companies. Its transparent, data-driven process provides founders with up to $2 million of non-dilutive growth capital in a fraction of the time it takes to raise from traditional sources.
- Total investments:
- 278
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
- Fund size:
- $15M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Lighter Capital invests in
Stages Lighter Capital invests in
Countries Lighter Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $176k–$2.4M
- Debt Financing
- $100k–$500k
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $77k–$1.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 111 (40%)
- SaaS 49 (18%)
- Information Technology 39 (14%)
- Enterprise Software 31 (11%)
- Internet 23 (8%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 183 (66%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 13 (5%)
- Seed 4 (1%)
- Funding Round 3 (1%)
- Series A 1 (0%)
Country
- United States 190 (68%)
- Canada 2 (1%)
- India 1 (0%)
- Australia 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Caitlin Goetze
Head of Partnerships and Community
|
Head of Partnerships and Community | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Erik Benson
Seed Investor, Co-Founder, Board Member
|
Seed Investor, Co-Founder, Board Member | Total investments: 41 | Find email | |
Jie Ji
Vice President Of Underwriting
|
Vice President Of Underwriting | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jody Page
Investments
|
Investments | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jon Prentice
Director, Investment Team
|
Director, Investment Team | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plexus is on a mission to transform legal value. Through advanced technology and flexible access to world-class talent, Plexus powers the world’s leading organisations, enabling legal teams to deliver more with less, and freeing lawyers to focus on higher value strategic work.Founded in Melbourne 2011, Plexus now has an international footprintwith offices in Sydney, London and Washington DC. The business has been profiled as a case study in the disruption of the professional services industry by HBR, INSEAD, ACU, and RMIT, and their thought leadership can often be found published in the AFR, Sydney Morning Herald, ALB, Lawyers Weekly and The Age.Plexus launched Gateway, the world’s first legal operating system, in 2016, and already it’s being used by in-house legal teams at over 200 of the world’s largest organisations including L’Oreal, Samsung, Woolworths, Spotify, General Mills, Coca Cola and General Motors.Gateway gives in-house legal teams the tools they need to deliver faster, better and more cost-effective legal support. It enables them to manage risk at speed and reduces external spend while increasing client satisfaction and employee engagement.In May 2019, Plexus raised A$4.65 million in Series-A funding led by KPMG, with whom they have also formed a strategic partnership.Get in touch to find out why more GCs are partnering with Plexus to transform their functions. | May 14, 2025 | ||
| Plexus is on a mission to transform legal value. Through advanced technology and flexible access to world-class talent, Plexus powers the world’s leading organisations, enabling legal teams to deliver more with less, and freeing lawyers to focus on higher value strategic work.Founded in Melbourne 2011, Plexus now has an international footprintwith offices in Sydney, London and Washington DC. The business has been profiled as a case study in the disruption of the professional services industry by HBR, INSEAD, ACU, and RMIT, and their thought leadership can often be found published in the AFR, Sydney Morning Herald, ALB, Lawyers Weekly and The Age.Plexus launched Gateway, the world’s first legal operating system, in 2016, and already it’s being used by in-house legal teams at over 200 of the world’s largest organisations including L’Oreal, Samsung, Woolworths, Spotify, General Mills, Coca Cola and General Motors.Gateway gives in-house legal teams the tools they need to deliver faster, better and more cost-effective legal support. It enables them to manage risk at speed and reduces external spend while increasing client satisfaction and employee engagement.In May 2019, Plexus raised A$4.65 million in Series-A funding led by KPMG, with whom they have also formed a strategic partnership.Get in touch to find out why more GCs are partnering with Plexus to transform their functions. | $3.9M / Debt Financing / May 14, 2025 | ||
| Fincentify is building a fintech ecosystem to help people borrow, save, and protect themselves. | Debt Financing / Feb 09, 2023 | ||
| Nyble is a fintech company that strives to make financial services accessible.Nyble builds fintech products using a shared technology stack, security, and payment infrastructure. Nyble approves loans based on their income and cashflows through its proprietary underwriting, advance payment collection data, and mobile app.The company leveragestechnology, data, and innovation to expand Canadians' accessibility to financial services regardless of their background, ethnicity, or credit score. | Debt Financing / Feb 09, 2023 | ||
| Givebacks centralizes student fees, online sales, ticketing, concessions, point-of-sale transactions, fundraising campaigns, parent organization activity, and compliance workflows into a single integrated system of record . Rather than operating as separate tools, the platform unifies workflows, approvals, reporting, and documentation standardsto provide districts with improved oversight, audit readiness, and financial transparency. The platform supports both centralized district finance models and distributed school-level operations, with configurable permissions and approval workflows that maintain district-wide standards while enabling school autonomy. | Debt Financing / Feb 01, 2023 | ||
| They at Prometheus Research have employed their innovative software tools to build, maintain, and manage customized systems for multidisciplinary research projects. They enable clients to acquire, centralize, utilize, share, and preserve their research data in a manner that lowers costs, increases efficiency and ensures data integrity. | $500K / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 01, 2022 | ||
| Arrivalist is the leading location analytics company, leveraging the changing locations of mobile devices to measure the way media influences people to visit places. The company’s patent-pending location analytics platform provides new insights in to the way owned, paid and earned media exposures impact visitation from users who’ve been exposed toits clients’ media. Arrivalist works with 70+ Location Marketers including 23 States, 40 Cities/ Regions and 4 National Tourist Offices. Arrivalist is funded by happy customers and is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco. | $2M / Debt Financing / May 05, 2022 | ||
| Beachly Brands provides carefully curated, beach-inspired apparel, accessories. They provide apparel for women, a store, and gifts. They provides online orders and provides delivery services. They provide apparel and accessories delivered every season for half the price. | Debt Financing / Jul 01, 2021 | ||
| Sendlane helps you generate more revenue, increase retention, and automate personalized experiences for your customers. Built for eCommerce. | $450K / Debt Financing / Dec 09, 2020 | ||
| Sendlane helps you generate more revenue, increase retention, and automate personalized experiences for your customers. Built for eCommerce. | $500K / Debt Financing / Jul 29, 2020 | ||
| See all 278 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Lighter Capital invest in?
Lighter Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Debt Financing and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 278 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Lighter Capital invest in?
Lighter Capital typically joins rounds of $176k–$2.4M at Seed, $100k–$500k at Debt Financing and $77k–$1.1M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Lighter Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Lighter Capital took part in.
How do I contact Lighter Capital?
Public channels for Lighter Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Lighter Capital?
The team at Lighter Capital includes Caitlin Goetze (Head of Partnerships and Community), Erik Benson (Seed Investor, Co-Founder, Board Member) and Jie Ji (Vice President Of Underwriting), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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