“Can a hotel BI vendor consolidate the entire commercial stack — pricing, distribution, direct bookings, payments — into an AI-native operating system for hospitality?”
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.
Lighthouse processes payments through Lighthouse Payments (own product, processor undisclosed).
Lighthouse integrates with Deskera.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 3 layers in Lighthouse's stack: Payments / PSP (Lighthouse Payments (own product, processor undisclosed)); Unified APIs (Apideck and Chift); Accounting (Deskera).
Lighthouse is founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, UK.
Lighthouse has raised $450M+ in total (latest round: Series C, 2024; valuation: $1B+ (2024)).
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