Lightfield raises $47M Series A led by a16z to rebuild CRM as a business world model
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-10
Lightfield announces a $47M Series A led by a16z, aiming to reimagine CRM as a world model of a business.
- Thesis: legacy CRMs like Salesforce were built 20+ years ago for humans updating records; layering agents on incomplete, unstructured data yields low-quality output
- Lightfield updates itself from every interaction, forming a trustworthy model of the business for people and agents — finding lookalike prospects, booking meetings, capturing commitments
- 5,000+ companies signed up since launching last November, replacing legacy CRM at mature orgs with hundreds of users
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