
Lightning AI is an online marketing platform intended to find a target audience for digital advertisement. The company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence to automate and optimize bidding, audience expansion, and re-targeting for meeting business goals, enabling marketers to reduce the cost of customer acquisition and focus on creative, engaging, and human marketing campaigns.

Lightning AI is an online marketing platform intended to find a target audience for digital advertisement. The company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence to automate and optimize bidding, audience expansion, and re-targeting for meeting business goals, enabling marketers to reduce the cost of customer acquisition and focus on creative, engaging, and human marketing campaigns.
What they do: Build AI developer tools and platform (originated from PyTorch Lightning)
Founders: William Falcon and Luis Capelo
Notable funding: Series A $18.6M (2020); Series B $40M (2022)
Lead investors (Series B): Coatue
Machine learning developer tooling and model deployment
Artificial intelligence / Developer tools
18.6M
Raised as Grid.ai
40M
Rebranded as Lightning AI concurrent with the round
“Coatue led Series B; other participants have included Index Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures”