The company was founded in 2010 Lefkofsky was a special advisor of Lightbank in 2014 and 2015, then became managing partner in November 2015. Other partners include Eric Ong, Matt Sacks, and Bill Pescatello. In 2011, Lightbank had raised over $700 million and had a $290 million Fund III. Its investments included
Groupon,
Tempus AI,
Fiverr and
Udemy. By 2013, other investments included
Sprout Social and
Belly. It invested in
Boom Technology in 2017,
SpotHero in 2014, and
BenchPrep and
Qwiki by 2021 among others. ==References==