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AI sales startup Lightfield raises $47M
Lightfield, an AI-powered CRM startup, raised $47 million in Series A funding led by a16z to scale its business world model platform. The company pivoted from Tome, an AI presentation builder, and now serves 5,000 customers with 400% net dollar retention.
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Summary
Lightfield, an AI-powered CRM startup, raised $47 million in Series A funding led by a16z to scale its business world model platform. The company pivoted from Tome, an AI presentation builder, and now serves 5,000 customers with 400% net dollar retention.
Tags
ai-crm · fundraising · startup · sales-software · series-a · business-intelligence
Key entities
Lightfield (organization, 0.99) · Keith Peiris (person, 0.99) · Henri Liriani (person, 0.99) · a16z (organization, 0.99) · Tome (organization, 0.98) · Salesforce (organization, 0.98) · Maverick Ventures (organization, 0.95) · Coatue (organization, 0.95) · Greylock (organization, 0.95) · Alex Konrad (person, 0.9) · ChatGPT (technology, 0.98) · Slack (technology, 0.95) · net-dollar-retention (concept, 0.92) · business-world-model (concept, 0.9)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 14 Sep 2026