Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 3, 2026
Lightyear AI, Inc.
Lightyear AI, Inc. looks under-valued against its niche peers and is active on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Lightyear AI, Inc. operates in AI / ML, based in New York.
Sub-sector tags: ai/ml.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Lightyear AI, Inc. has raised $51M in disclosed capital across 3 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series B (a $15M–$40M round).
Largest single filing: $31M on 2024-08-30.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2026-01-16.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Lightyear AI, Inc. at approximately $71M (range $39M–$95M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Under-valued. Modeled value is 0.65× the median modeled value of Series B AI / ML companies in 2025–2027 (22 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 33 months.
Last raise 5 mo ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 months.
Raising on or ahead of the sector's normal rhythm.
The last round was 1.9× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 96% of AI / ML peers (2067 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 87% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Auditoria.AI, Inc., SGNL.AI, Inc., GrowthX AI, Inc., Gather AI, Inc., Panorama Artificial Intelligence Corp..
Peoplefiled
6 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.