Who invested in LightUp

5 rounds we have observed, with the 10 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

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Funding summaryUpdated 26 Oct 2026

$10Mraised across 5 rounds since 2013, from 5 sources

$25KSeed$120KCrowdfunding$1.3MGrant$9.0MSeries A

Latest round: Series A, $9.0MMar 2023
Step-upi: 6.9×
Investors: 10

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The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

201320152017201920212023

$25KSeed$120KCrowdfunding?Venture$1.3MGrant$9.0MSeries A

First round: Seed, $25K
Biggest round: $9.0M
Usual gap between rounds: 21 months

The rounds

Mar 2023
Series A$9.0M4 new
Source recorded
Aug 2016
Grant$1.3M4 new
Source recorded
Apr 2015
VentureAmount undisclosed
No investor was named in the report.
From a historical funding record
Jun 2013
Crowdfunding$120K
No investor was named in the report.
From a historical funding record
Jan 2013
Seed$25K2 new
- SOS Ventures
- HAXLR8R
From a historical funding record

Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

Seed2013Crowdfunding2013Venture2015Grant2016Series A2023

National Science Foundation

GTMfundSOS VenturesHAXLR8R

Everyone who backed them

National Science FoundationGovernment1round

Andreessen HorowitzVC firm1round

SOSVVC firm1round

Shasta VenturesVC firm1round

Incubate FundVC firm1round

Dorm Room FundVC firm1round

HAXAccelerator1round

GTMfundVC firm1round

SOS VenturesVC firm1round

HAXLR8RVC firm1round

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Also claim to have backed them

These 2 firms list LightUp as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.