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What does Firstlight Capital invest in?
Firstlight Capital invests most often at Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as SaaS, AI and Automation.
Firstlight Capital highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A: 100% of its rounds
What they do
First Light Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in digital-area startups from seed to Series A, including SaaS, AI, automation, marketplaces, and media.Translated from Japanese, from their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries A
- Sectors
- SaaSAIAutomation
- Based in
- Minato, Japan
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first1 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Oct
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
JBJames Buckner StovellManaging member of First Light GP, LLC, its general partneriFiling they signed
PMPeter Monroe StovellMr. Stovell is the managing member of First Light GP, LLC, the general partneriFiling they signed
We also hold 3 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
11 of 34 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.