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Lightspeed
One-stop commerce platform for merchants to simplify, scale and provide exceptional customer experiences
At a glance
- Status
- Listed
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- Montreal, Canada
- Listing
- IPO 2019
- Sector
- Food
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later2 investors entered at this stage
Silicon Valley Bank- LCLa Caisse
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Lightspeed employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Chris DefourCanada
Stein van MaasakkerNetherlands
DEDeliverectEst. 2018
Jan HollezBelgium
IFINSTANT FinancialEst. 2015
Kevin FalkCanada
Manouk DraismaNetherlandsGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
5 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Lightspeed was the backer or acquirer, 2013–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
36 deals across Lightspeed's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Lightspeed's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Lightspeed on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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