# Lighter Capital

> Lighter Capital is a VC fund in Seattle backing Software and SaaS. See 113 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 113
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Fund size: $15M
- Last fund: Nov 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lighter-capital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lightercapital
- Website: https://www.lightercapital.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lightercapital/

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Lighter Capital. Shizune tracks 10 team members at Lighter Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/lighter-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | $100k–$500k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 53 | 47% |
| SaaS | 29 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 16 | 14% |
| Enterprise Software | 15 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 14 | 12% |

161 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 87 | 77% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 5% |
| Seed | 1 | 1% |
| Series A | 1 | 1% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 1% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 93 | 82% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caitlin Goetze | Head of Partnerships and Community | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caitlin-goetze |
| Erik Benson | Seed Investor, Co-Founder, Board Member | 41 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-benson |
| Jie Ji | Vice President Of Underwriting | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jie-ji |
| Jody Page | Investments | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jody-page |
| Jon Prentice | Director, Investment Team | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-prentice |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Plexus | Plexus is a law firm that provides in-house counsel with new and innovative services.Plexus's vision is to build 'The Future of The Law'. The company's technology powers the legal functions of many of the world's leading brands, including: General Motors, L'Oreal, Samsung, General Mills, and Woolworths, and Plexushas been profiled by both HBR and INSEAD as a leader in the disruption of professional services. |  |  | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Plexus | Plexus is a law firm that provides in-house counsel with new and innovative services.Plexus's vision is to build 'The Future of The Law'. The company's technology powers the legal functions of many of the world's leading brands, including: General Motors, L'Oreal, Samsung, General Mills, and Woolworths, and Plexushas been profiled by both HBR and INSEAD as a leader in the disruption of professional services. | $3.9M | Debt Financing | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Fincentify | Fincentify is building a fintech ecosystem to help people borrow, save, and protect themselves. |  | Debt Financing | Feb 09, 2023 |  |
| Nyble | 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 | 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 |  |
| Prometheus Research | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Sendlane helps you generate more revenue, increase retention, and automate personalized experiences for your customers. Built for eCommerce. | $500K | Debt Financing | Jul 29, 2020 |  |

10 of 113 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1776 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1776-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accelerator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerator-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bigfoot Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bigfoot-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Canyon Creek Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canyon-creek-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Clearco](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clearbanc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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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 Funding Round stage. Most of the 113 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lighter Capital's check size?

Lighter Capital typically joins rounds of $100k–$500k at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lighter Capital participates 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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