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Lightsmith Group

300 Park Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10022, United States

Overview

The Lightsmith Group is a private equity investment company that invests in early-stage companies that address critical societal needs. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Total investments
5
Lead investments
3
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Financial Services
  • Professional Services
  • Small and Medium Businesses
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Investment portfolio

  • Tive

    Led · Equity · Jan 2026

    Founded in 2015, Tive delivers supply chain and logistics visibility solutions that help shippers, logistics service providers, and retailers monitor shipment location and condition in real time. The company combines a cloud software platform with patented sensor hardware and always-on live monitoring services to reduce shipment excursions, limit delays, and cut theft, damage, and spoilage. More than 1,200 global customers use Tive’s technology to gain actionable insights and improve end-customer satisfaction. With its integrated hardware-software offering, Tive positions itself as a comprehensive visibility partner within the logistics ecosystem. The newly raised capital will be directed toward expanding operations and accelerating product development. By enhancing both its platform capabilities and geographic reach, the company aims to strengthen its market penetration and support a broader base of enterprise customers.

  • AiDASH

    Participated · Series C · Apr 2024

    AiDash provides full-stack SaaS solutions that combine satellites and AI to help critical infrastructure industries become climate-resilient and more sustainable. Its products serve customers in electric, gas, and water utilities, transportation, and construction by transforming asset inspection and maintenance. The company also helps customers comply with biodiversity net gain mandates and carbon capture goals. AiDash states customers deliver ROI in their first year of deployment through reduced costs, improved reliability, and achieved sustainability goals. The company is preparing to scale globally and execute on its growth ambitions following its recent raise. Financially, AiDash has raised a total of $91.5 million to date after closing an oversubscribed Series C at $58.5 million. AiDash provides satellite- and AI-powered vertical SaaS products for operations, maintenance, and sustainability, targeting utilities, energy, mining, and other industries with distributed assets. Its product suite includes an Intelligent Vegetation Management System, an Intelligent Sustainability Management System, and a Disaster and Disruption Management System (DDMS) that forecasts storm and wildfire outages and damages in near real-time. DDMS supports planning, response, and restoration for utilities, energy companies, governments, and cities before, during, and after extreme events. The company says the recent capital will be used to enhance product capabilities, accelerate R&D, hire new talent, and expand into additional global markets. AiDash reported nearly 3X year-over-year annual recurring revenue growth within 12 months, doubled headcount and customer base, and reached over 75 utility customers in 2022, including Fortune 500 companies. The company is positioning its technology to modernize electric grids, reduce vegetation-driven outages, and integrate with Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Grid Asset Advisor to drive grid resilience and sustainability. AiDash is an AI-first vertical SaaS provider that uses high-resolution multispectral and SAR satellite data fed into proprietary AI models to automate operations, maintenance, and sustainability for industries with geographically distributed assets. Its flagship Intelligent Vegetation Management System (IVMS) combines hi-res multispectral imagery and ground data to automate vegetation management for large utilities, with aims such as preventing wildfires and reducing storm damage. The company serves utilities, energy, transportation, water and wastewater, mining, and construction customers and now counts over 30 customers across the U.S., U.K., and Canada. In the past year AiDash grew customer count sixfold, annual recurring revenue fivefold, and headcount fivefold; it signed its first customer in early 2020. AiDash plans to use new capital to expand IVMS and other product offerings, accelerate product innovation, hire talent, and expand globally across North America, the U.K., and Europe. The company positions IVMS as the only proven satellite-powered vegetation management system and emphasizes multi-source data and workflow automation to help utilities meet stricter green regulations and improve disaster management. AiDash uses high-resolution multispectral and SAR satellite imagery combined with proprietary AI models to deliver satellite-powered operations and maintenance solutions for utilities, energy, and other industries with geographically distributed assets. Its applications focus on Vegetation Management, Remote Monitoring & Survey, and Disaster and Disruptions Management, and the company says its Intelligent Vegetation Management System is the world’s only satellite-powered vegetation management system deployed at scale for large utilities. AiDash works with several Fortune 500 utilities in the United States. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area (Santa Clara, Calif.) and plans to expand operations into Europe, Australia and Asia. AiDash raised $6 million in a Series A funding round and will use the proceeds to boost product innovation, hire new talent and support global expansion. The founding team are described as serial entrepreneurs and IIT alumni with prior exits and experience running Tier-1 VC-funded companies, and two investors’ representatives will join the board.

  • Source

    Participated · Series D · Jul 2022

    SOURCE Global develops and sells SOURCE® Hydropanels, a solar-powered, air-to-water technology that creates mineralized drinking water from sunlight and ambient air. The Hydropanel system is programmable, distributed, infrastructure-free, and fully digitized, operating off-grid with built-in sensors and cloud-based 24-hour monitoring. Panels scale from small arrays to multi-thousand-panel water farms serving communities, businesses, and sustainable bottling operations, and function in a variety of climates including low-humidity locations. SOURCE says its technology addresses large unmet need for climate-resilient, sustainable drinking water and aims to reduce the impacts of extracting, treating, bottling, and transporting water. The company operates in more than 50 countries and is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. SOURCE plans to further scale its commercial, community, and consumer offerings globally and to accelerate innovation in advanced renewable water technologies. Zero Mass Water develops SOURCE Hydropanels that create safe, mineralized drinking water from sunlight and atmospheric moisture. The solar-powered panels ozonate and store purified water and can be deployed in arrays from single-residence to community-scale installations. SOURCE systems are already installed in 45 countries. The company plans to scale global installations and launch direct-to-consumer initiatives, including residential panel installations beyond North America. The recent financing will be used to accelerate innovation and advanced renewable water technologies. Zero Mass Water is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

  • Solinftec

    Led · Equity · May 2022

    Solinftec builds a digital-ag operating system that links to farm machinery and is powered by an AI system called ALICE.AI, which connects with sensors, computers and displays to provide real-time, in-field crop data, inputs and weather information. The platform is used across row and perennial crops — including sugarcane, soy, corn, cotton, coffee, timber and citrus — and the company says it manages more than 27 million acres in the US, Brazil and other parts of Latin America. Solinftec reports it serves 85% of Brazilian sugarcane growers and that its platform helped customers avoid over 680,000 tons of CO2 emissions from 2016 to 2021. The company recently launched digital grain trading tools in the US and Canada and struck a partnership with US cooperative Growmark to develop a new farm-management robot. Solinftec positions its mission around improving grower decision-making on planting, spraying, harvesting and tendering while promoting sustainability and broader access to precision technologies.

Team

  • Sanjay Wagle

    Co-Founder and Managing Director

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  • Jay Koh

    Managing Director & Co-Founder

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