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Lightship: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Lightship is a provider of enterprise-level, direct-to-patient clinical research solutions. The company engages patients at home from recruitment through completion and eliminates the hurdles and inefficiencies of traditional approaches. Founded in 2018, Lightship is based in El Segundo, California.

www.lightship.com LinkedIn El Segundo, United States 101-250 employees
Clinical Trials Health Care Medical
Total raised
$56.5M
Rounds
2
Latest
Undisclosed round
Feb 2024

Lightship has raised $56.5M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent an undisclosed round of $16.5M announced in Feb 2024.

That round is above the $4.7M median round size for Health Care companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Lightship Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$56.5M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
Latest funding round
Undisclosed round
$16.5M in Feb 2024
Employees
101-250
reported band
Headquarters
El Segundo, United States

Latest funding round on record: Feb 2024.

Lightship Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Undisclosed round
$16.5M
Series C
$40.0M

Lightship raised $40.0M in a Series C announced in Oct 2021.

2.3 years later, an undisclosed round of $16.5M was announced in Feb 2024.

Lightship Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Samantha Eells
Founder
David MacMurchy
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the Lightship team: 1 of 2 have an email address on file.

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Lightship Funding Compared to Other Health Care Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
3,653
$4.7M
29,722
$7.5M

Lightship's latest round of $16.5M is above the median round in Health Care. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Lightship Funding FAQs

What does Lightship do?

Lightship is a provider of enterprise-level, direct-to-patient clinical research solutions. The company engages patients at home from recruitment through completion and eliminates the hurdles and inefficiencies of traditional approaches. Founded in 2018, Lightship is based in El Segundo, California.

How much funding has Lightship raised?

Lightship has raised $56.5M across 2 rounds on record. The most recent is an undisclosed round of $16.5M announced in Feb 2024.

When did Lightship last raise funding?

Lightship's most recent funding round on record is an undisclosed round of $16.5M, announced in Feb 2024.

Who founded Lightship?

FundedIQ lists Samantha Eells (Founder) at Lightship.

Who is the CEO of Lightship?

David MacMurchy is listed as CEO at Lightship.

Where is Lightship headquartered?

Lightship is based in El Segundo, California, United States.

How many employees does Lightship have?

Lightship is in the 101-250 employee band.

How does Lightship's funding compare to other Health Care startups?

Lightship's latest round of $16.5M is above the $4.7M median round size for Health Care companies on FundedIQ across 3,653 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Lightship Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Lightship is left off this page rather than filled in.

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