
Lightpanda is a browser purpose-built from scratch for AI and automation workflows, aiming to be 10x faster and use 10x less RAM than Chrome headless. It is designed for headless operation without rendering overhead, making it ideal for web scraping at scale and empowering AI agents with web capabilities. The company, Selecy SAS, was founded by individuals with extensive experience in web scraping infrastructure, driven by the pain points of scaling with Chrome. They offer a cloud-based solution that integrates with existing tools like Puppeteer and Playwright, and is built using the Zig programming language for performance and efficiency.

Lightpanda is a browser purpose-built from scratch for AI and automation workflows, aiming to be 10x faster and use 10x less RAM than Chrome headless. It is designed for headless operation without rendering overhead, making it ideal for web scraping at scale and empowering AI agents with web capabilities. The company, Selecy SAS, was founded by individuals with extensive experience in web scraping infrastructure, driven by the pain points of scaling with Chrome. They offer a cloud-based solution that integrates with existing tools like Puppeteer and Playwright, and is built using the Zig programming language for performance and efficiency.
Product: AI-native headless browser built for machines (web automation, scraping, AI agents)
Tech: Built from scratch in Zig; aims for CDP compatibility with Playwright/Puppeteer; open source (AGPL v3.0)
Funding: Pre-seed announced June 10, 2025 led by ISAI (amount undisclosed)
Founded / HQ: Founded 2022; Paris, France
Team size: ~8 employees
Web automation, large-scale web scraping, AI agent web capabilities, automated testing and related machine-driven web workflows.
2022
Data and Analytics
Participation from Kima, Factorial Capital, Prototype Capital and multiple angel investors (including founders/executives from Mistral, Hugging Face, Dust and others). Amount undisclosed.
“Lead investor ISAI with participation from Kima, Factorial Capital, Prototype Capital and notable angel investors (founders/executives from Mistral, Hugging Face, Dust, plus other experienced AI/tech angels).”