Company
Lightning Engineering
building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
Also known as Lightning Labs
- Status
- Operatingas of 2026-09-19
- Business model
- B2B
- Customers
- payment processors, exchanges, fintech companies, AI startups, agents, and large merchants
Record updated 28 September 2026
About
At Lightning Labs, we develop software that powers the Lightning Network. Our open source, secure, and scalable Lightning systems enable users to send and receive money more efficiently than ever before. We also offer a series of verifiable, non-custodial Lightning-based financial services. We bridge the world of open source software and the next-generation of bitcoin financial software.
Funding snapshot
- Total raised
- $2.5MSEC form D sum, as of 2026-09-28Source (opens in a new tab)
- Latest round
- Round, $2.5M2016-03-02
Funding rounds
- Round, 2016
- $2.5M2016-03-02, SEC form D sold, 19 investors
Products
- Web
- Lightning Terminal