£16.9M
NordicNinja led the financing round alongside Lightspeed, Superangel, and several prominent angel investors.
Lightyear
Lightyear provides a transparent investment platform for international markets.
£49.1MTotal raised
Lightyear operates a multi-currency investment platform that provides access to global markets with zero trading, account, or custody fees.
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Founders
Martin Sokk
Co-founder and CEO
Martin is co-founder and CEO of Lightyear, and previously held senior product and operations roles at TransferWise.
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Mihkel Aamer
Mihkel is co-founder and CTO at Lightyear. He previously spent six years as an engineering lead at Transferwise.
LinkedInInvestors
- £16.9M
- $25.0M
- £6.2M
- £1.1M
Funding history
$25.0M
Lightyear raises $25m in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to scale across Europe.
The London investment platform secured backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Virgin Group, and Richard Branson to fund its European expansion.
£6.2M
The round was led by Mosaic Ventures to support the rollout of the company investment application to the UK market.
£1.1M
The pre-seed round was led by Taavet Hinrikus, Sten Tamkivi and Jaan Tallinn.