Lighthouse
“Can a hotel BI vendor consolidate the entire commercial stack — pricing, distribution, direct bookings, payments — into an AI-native operating system for hospitality?”
Founded2012
HQLondon, UK
Total raised$450M+
Latest roundSeries C, 2024
Valuation$1B+ (2024)
IndustryVertical SaaS / Hospitality
The story
Founded as OTA Insight, a rate-shopping and revenue-management analytics tool for hotels. Rebranded as Lighthouse in 2024 after a string of acquisitions (notably Stardekk) that broadened the platform from pure BI into an operating system for hotel commercial teams — covering pricing, distribution, direct bookings, channel management, and embedded payments. With $370M from KKR, the company is leaning into AI (Ernest, Connect AI, KITT) as the next layer over its hospitality dataset.
Product timeline
2021
Raised $80M Series B from Spectrum Equity (operating as OTA Insight at the time).· funding
2024
Rebranded to Lighthouse; acquired Stardekk (all-in-one hotel software including PMS, channel manager, payments).· acquisition
2024
Raised $370M Series C led by KKR at $1B+ valuation.· funding
2025
Launched Developer Solutions Suite with Integration API.· platform
2026
Launched Connect AI (direct booking in ChatGPT) and Ernest AI teammate.· ai
The stack
3 layers disclosed in Lighthouse’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Lighthouse Payments (own product, processor undisclosed)
Unified APIs
in the full report
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: minor
3 more providers across 2 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.