Lightrock
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Lightrock is a global growth capital platform that backs purpose-driven entrepreneurs tackling the world’s biggest challenges. Lightrock invests in companies that pursue scalable and tech-driven business models around the key impact themes of people, planet, and productivity/tech for good. Lightrock’s portfolio includes more than 90high-growth companies across Europe, US, Latin America, India and Africa, supported by more than 100 Lightrock professionals based in 6 global offices. Lightrock is backed by LGT, the international private banking and asset management group, and other leading global institutions.For more information, please visit www.lightrock.com.
- Total investments:
- 138
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 54%
- Fund size:
- $834M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Lightrock invests in
Stages Lightrock invests in
Countries Lightrock invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series B
- $8.3M–$70M
- Series C
- $19M–$200M
- Series E
- $12M–$400M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 22 (16%)
- FinTech 19 (14%)
- Software 11 (8%)
- Finance 10 (7%)
- Health Care 9 (7%)
Stage
- Series C 28 (20%)
- Series B 26 (19%)
- Series E 12 (9%)
- Series D 11 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 10 (7%)
Country
- India 30 (22%)
- United States 11 (8%)
- Brazil 10 (7%)
- Germany 8 (6%)
- United Kingdom 5 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Christopher Steinau
Growth Investor
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Growth Investor | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Kevin Bone
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Marcos Wilson Pereira
Partner, Head of Latin America
|
Partner, Head of Latin America | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Pal Erik Sjatil
Global Managing Partner and CEO
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Global Managing Partner and CEO | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Umur Hursever
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Mahindra Last Mile Mobility
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Mile Mobility is a division of M&M that is in charge of the company's well-known mix of petrol, CNG, diesel, and electric last mile mobility 3- and 4-wheelers - passenger and freight vehicles. | $33.7M / Secondary Market / Jul 30, 2026 | |
Stride
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Stride is a forward-thinking renewable energy firm to advance a sustainable future by providing eco-friendly home renovation projects, smart home technology, energy-efficient products, and solar energy access to every household. | $15M / Series B / May 21, 2026 | |
Euler Motors
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Euler Motors is an automotive tech startup based out of New Delhi focused on commercial electric vehicles. Inspired by the work done by EV Companies across the globe esp. Tesla, Euler Motors is committed to accelerating India's transition to sustainable mobility. Euler aims to become the category leader for cargo transport by driving theElectric Vehicle Revolution in India. Euler Motors is focused on first solving last-mile logistics for e-commerce and 3PL players. To kickstart mass-market adoption - Euler is offering the entire "mobility as a service" stack instead of serving just one stage of a larger value-chain. | $46.6M / Series E / Mar 24, 2026 | |
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Euler Motors
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Euler Motors is an automotive tech startup based out of New Delhi focused on commercial electric vehicles. Inspired by the work done by EV Companies across the globe esp. Tesla, Euler Motors is committed to accelerating India's transition to sustainable mobility. Euler aims to become the category leader for cargo transport by driving theElectric Vehicle Revolution in India. Euler Motors is focused on first solving last-mile logistics for e-commerce and 3PL players. To kickstart mass-market adoption - Euler is offering the entire "mobility as a service" stack instead of serving just one stage of a larger value-chain. | Secondary Market / Mar 24, 2026 | |
WayCool
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Waycool is an agri-tech company that processes, distributes, and procures fresh produce, dairy products, and staples. The company helps increase farmers’ income, through innovative quality management and food safety technology. It leverages technology and innovation to improve logistics and distribution services. Waycool distributes farm-sourcedfruits, vegetables, and other produce to local shops and modern retail outlets. They have a retail presence, currently in Chennai, through the brand SunnyBee, operating retail stores, mobile stores on trucks, and e-commerce. In addition, there are a number of high-quality private label products that SunnyBee produces and brands through partnerships with sister companies. WayCool establishes direct links to farmers and consumers using physical and information technology to link them efficiently. | $22.7M / Private Equity / Mar 13, 2026 | |
Moniepoint
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Moniepoint is a financial technology company that renders payments, credit, business management, and banking services for businesses. | $90M / Series C / Oct 21, 2025 | |
Katana
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Katana is a cloud-based software helping thousands of businesses manage their inventory, production, accounting, and reporting in real time, centralized to one platform — giving businesses everything they need to get their products to customers as soon as possible. | $16.4M / Series B / Oct 02, 2025 | |
ATEC
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ATEC solves clean cooking and climate change through disruptive technology. ATEC's products leverage macro trends that are working together to lift half the world's population into sustainable lives and combine these trends with patented IoT technology that enables paygo financing, carbon credits, and e-commerce, to bring clean cooking toevery household on the planet. The company provides households sustainable, affordable and accessible modern cooking products.ATEC is an award-winning social enterprise with teams across Cambodia, Bangladesh, Australia and Singapore.It was founded in 2016 and is located in Castlemaine, Victoria. | $15.5M / Series A / Sep 18, 2025 | |
Previse Systems
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At Previse Systems, they fundamentally reshape the way Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) software is designed, implemented, and operated. They offer a highly performant SaaS solution for European electricity, natural gas, and certificate trading, combining modern software architecture with the latest available tools and technology. WithPrevise Systems, energy companies are well equipped to master the challenges of a fast evolving environment. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 26, 2025 | |
Group14 Technologies
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Founded to enable the electrification of everything - from tiny medical, consumer and commercial devices to every possible flavor and size of transportation - Group14 brings new finely-tuned performance capabilities to the era of the lithium-silicon battery. Our novel composite materials and our industrial process to make them reliably answer thecost, scale and performance barriers that have slowed the world’s transition towards the all-electric future. | $463M / Series D / Aug 20, 2025 | |
| See all 138 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Lightrock invest in?
Lightrock invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 138 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Lightrock's check size?
Lightrock typically joins rounds of $8.3M–$70M at Series B, $19M–$200M at Series C and $12M–$400M at Series E. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lightrock participates in.
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Who are the partners at Lightrock?
The team at Lightrock includes Christopher Steinau (Growth Investor), Kevin Bone (Partner) and Marcos Wilson Pereira (Partner, Head of Latin America), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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