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American venture capital investments firm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lightbank is a financial organization that specializes in making venture capital investments including seed investments, Series A round and late-stage investments in companies across the United States. The company was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. [1][2][3][4][5]
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Company type | Financial organization/venture fund |
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Industry | finance venture fund |
Founded | 2010 |
Founder | Eric Lefkofsky Brad Keywell |
Headquarters | , |
Key people |
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Website | lightbank |
Lightbank has invested in a number of companies,[6] including the website Groupon. Lightbank's Eric Lefkofsky was an original co-founder and Andrew Mason of Groupon.[7]
Other Lightbank investments include Sprout Social, Snapsheet, Belly,[8] Boom Technology,[9] Fiverr,[citation needed] Fooda, SpotHero,[10] Tempus, Udemy,[11] test preparation service BenchPrep, Qwiki, HighGround,[6] and Hello Divorce.[12]
Lefkofsky was a co-founder of Lightbank, though he became 'Special Advisor' in 2014–2015 during his tenure as CEO of Groupon. He then returned to Lightbank as managing partner in November 2015 after stepping down as CEO of Groupon.[13]
Other partners include Eric Ong, Matt Sacks, and Bill Pescatello.[citation needed]
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