# Lighthouse - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Lighthouse for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-04-22

## Company Profile
- Name: Lighthouse
- Sector: ai, hospitality-tech, saas
- Stage: unicorn
- Status: active
- Founded: 2012
- Employees: 700+
- Total funding: 450000000
- Location: Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
- Website: https://www.mylighthouse.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/lighthouse
- Founders: Gino Engels, Adriaan Coppens, Matthias Geeroms

## Overview
Founded in Ghent (https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt) in 2012 by Gino Engels (https://techwiki.ai/people/gino-engels/llms.txt), Lighthouse began as OTA Insight and built one of the hospitality industry's most widely used revenue intelligence platforms. The product aggregates market data, competitor pricing, booking pace, and demand signals to help hotel revenue managers make better pricing and distribution decisions. Over time the company expanded from rate benchmarking into a broader business intelligence suite covering market forecasting and commercial strategy.

In November 2024, Lighthouse raised $370M in a Series C led by KKR, pushing its valuation to $2.4B and cementing its status as Belgium's 5th Unicorn (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/unicorn/llms.txt). The company has relocated its headquarters to London but retains approximately 270 of its 700+ employees in Belgium, keeping a significant operational and engineering footprint in its home country.

The company's trajectory from a Ghent (https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt)-founded startup to a multi-billion dollar global SaaS platform is one of the stronger examples in Belgian tech of a vertical AI product scaling to global market leadership.

## Funding History
- Series C, $370M, Nov 2024: KKR (lead). Valuation: $2.4B

## Key People
- Gino Engels (https://techwiki.ai/people/gino-engels/llms.txt) - Founder

## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [city] Ghent: https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt
- [concept] Unicorn: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/unicorn/llms.txt
- [person] Gino Engels: https://techwiki.ai/people/gino-engels/llms.txt
- [person] Adriaan Coppens: https://techwiki.ai/people/adriaan-coppens/llms.txt
- [person] Matthias Geeroms: https://techwiki.ai/people/matthias-geeroms/llms.txt
- [sector] AI & Machine Learning: https://techwiki.ai/sectors/ai/llms.txt
- [sector] SaaS & Enterprise Software: https://techwiki.ai/sectors/saas/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-04-23] Stronger Pathways From Research To Impact🎉 Spin-outs Denmark is entering a new phase, marking an important milestone for research based entrepreneurship in Denmark. Across all eight Danish universiti (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lighthouse_impact-innovation-researchtoimpact-activity-7452975166185238528-rph2)
- [2026-03-05] Gents Lighthouse wordt met AI-app concurrent van Booking.com (https://www.tijd.be/r/t/1/id/10651317)

## Links
- Website: https://www.mylighthouse.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/lighthouse
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/companies/lighthouse/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/companies/lighthouse/llms-full.txt

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