# Lightyears Solar: Manufacturing, Auckland, New Zealand

> Lightyears Solar: Lightyears Solar is a solar farm development and management company thatspecializes in building high-quality, utility-scale solar PV farms.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/startup/lightyears-solar (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

New Zealand · [Manufacturing startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Lightyears Solar

Lightyears Solar is a solar farm development and management company thatspecializes in building high-quality, utility-scale solar PV farms.

Funding reported Last round: Undisclosed round

Manufacturing Auckland, New Zealand

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2018 8 years old
- **Team:** 1 1 to 10 people
- **Funding reported:** 6M as listed, currency not stated
- **Last round:** Undisclosed round Mar 2024

How sure we are

- ✓ **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

No round for Lightyears Solar has been confirmed by a filing or an announcement yet, so nothing here counts toward an investor's record. [How we decide](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)

## What company datasets say Lightyears Solar raised

Funding, as reported

Reported in all **6M** in the source's currency

Rounds **1**

Last round **Undisclosed round**

Last round date **Mar 2024**

Investors listed **2**

## Founders and team

From Lightyears Solar's own website: 2 founders, 19 on the team.

**Matt Shanks** Managing Director and Co-founder

**Sean Tobin** Managing Director and Co-founder

- **Callum McKain** Chief Finance Officer
- **Abin Thomas** Senior Electrical Engineer
- **Adam Simpson** Commercial Project Manager
- **Brody Nelson** Board member
- **Callum Macdonald** Chair
- **David Madjar** Director of Solar Farm Operations
- **Deborah Riley** Compliance Manager
- **Derek Ernest** Project Manager
- **Dr Andreas Leimbach** Board member
- **Fraser Jonker** Board member
- **Glen Jacobsen** Director of Development
- **James Coe** Director of Group Operations
- **Jasmine Urquhart** Business Operations Lead
- **Julian Lee** Corporate Counsel
- **Lauren Curtayne** Board member
- **Nick Carson** Senior Electrical Engineer
- **Rishaal Mudliar** Senior Electrical Engineer
- **Robert Wilson** Operations Automation Lead

And 1 more on the team.

## On a portfolio page

Investors who name them

- [Rabble Revolutionising fundraising](https://millionrounds.com/fund/rabble-revolutionising-fundraising)

Each firm lists Lightyears Solar on its own website. That is the firm's claim, a weaker thing than a round we watched, but a named source.

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