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Lightpanda
Lightpanda develops a fast, lightweight headless browser engine built in Zig specifically designed for web automation, crawling, and AI agents.
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Lightpanda at a glance
Lightpanda is a developer tools / browser automation company headquartered in France. Its most recent funding round, Pre-Seed, raised $286,000 in June 2025. Xcout tracks 2 named people at Lightpanda, including Francis Bouvier (Co-founder and CEO).
Lightpanda leadership
- Francis BouvierCo-founder and CEO
- Katie BrownCofounder COO
Lightpanda funding rounds
Every round on record:
| Date | Round | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | $286,000 | 14 named |
Who invested in each round, lead investors, valuations and the co-investor graph — open the full funding history →
Investors
Lightpanda competitors
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Browserbase provides cloud-hosted browser infrastructure and APIs that let developers run and automate headless browsers at scale. It primarily serves software developers and companies building web-scraping tools, testing systems, and AI agents that need browser interaction.
Kernel provides browser infrastructure and cloud-based Chromium sessions designed specifically for web agents and automation developers. The platform offers features such as captcha solving, proxy management, managed authentication, and browser telemetry to help agents interact with websites at scale.
Lightrun provides an AI SRE and runtime observability platform that supplies live production context to developers, IDEs, and AI agents. The platform features inline runtime sensors and sandboxed instrumentation to help engineering teams debug live code, validate pull requests, and automate issue remediation.
Zag provides AI review and testing agents that build, test, and run code on every pull request for software development teams. The platform executes agents in real macOS and Linux environments to handle tasks such as code review, QA testing, security audits, and compliance checks.
Geekflare provides a suite of 13 web data APIs, including web scraping, search, screenshot, meta scraping, DNS lookup, and redirect checker APIs. The platform is designed for AI agents, developers, and teams to extract and render web data into formats like Markdown, JSON, and screenshots for AI applications, RAG pipelines, and automation.
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More on Lightpanda in Xcout Intel
- 2 named people with titles, LinkedIn and board committees
- 1 funding round with the investors in each, and who they co-invest with
- The full competitor set, tracking, exports and API access