# Lighthouse

AI-native sourcing and CRM software built for venture capital firms.

## Company Profile

Lighthouse is a CRM and sourcing platform built for venture capital firms. It combines inbound deal management, relationship intelligence, pipeline workflows, enrichment, and AI agents that can classify opportunities, summarize meetings, draft follow-ups, and maintain CRM records.

- Website: https://trylighthouse.vc/?utm_source=vcsoftware.vc&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=vcsoftware.vc
- Categories: [CRM](https://www.vcsoftware.vc/crm), [Sourcing](https://www.vcsoftware.vc/sourcing)
- Reviewed: 2026-08-28
- Last verified: 2026-08-28
- Coverage: In-depth review
- Evidence: Demoed, Documentation reviewed
- Best for: Emerging managers, Institutional firms
- Primary users: Investment team
- Workflows: Deal sourcing, Deal flow & CRM
- Regions: Global, North America
- Implementation: Moderate

## Pros

- Combines sourcing, CRM, and relationship intelligence
- AI agents for inbound triage and CRM maintenance
- API and MCP access

## Cons

- MCP is powerful, but the internal AI assistant is in its early days
- Sourcing module is better than most CRMs, but a bit behind point solutions

## Analyst Review

### Overview

Lighthouse is an AI-native CRM built for venture capital firms. It combines deal flow, relationship intelligence, meeting workflows, sourcing, and an LP portal in a single product. The breadth is unusual and impressive. With a lean team of developers, it's pretty impressive what they've managed to build. I was particularly impressed by how coherent the product feels across these modules, with each module writing back to the same company and contact records.

### Relationships

Lighthouse's LinkedIn integration is a strong feature and not common for a CRM. Investors can import their connections, sync conversations, send messages and connection requests, and see second-degree paths for warm introductions directly in the product. Lighthouse combines that activity with email and meeting history to calculate relationship strength, temperature, and status. This results in a shared view of the firm's network rather than a CRM that only reflects what investors remember to enter.

Lighthouse also records meetings, stores transcripts, generates summaries, and prepares investors for upcoming calls similar to Granola. Since meeting prep lives in the same place as your firm's relationship data, it can draw from contacts, companies, notes, tasks, past meetings, deals, emails, and LinkedIn messages to come up with in-depth summaries. Inbound deal flow is also handled well with agents creating and enriching records from messages, classifying opportunities, and filling custom CRM fields.

### Customization

Their underlying CRM is highly customizable with custom fields, tables, Kanban boards, saved views, reports, and automated workflows. Lighthouse also has a built-in AI agent that you can ask questions about specific records. And, just like all good AI systems, Lighthouse offers an MCP to allow external AI tools to read and update the CRM.

### Sourcing

Sourcing is a separate module at Lighthouse. Sourcing provides enriched company and founder profiles with funding, hiring, website, social, GitHub, and other operating signals.

### Pricing

With regard to pricing, my advice to the Lighthouse team was to charge more money. The product is quite inexpensive given the value it offers, with the CRM costing €75 per user per month, while sourcing costs €300 per month for the fund and includes one CRM seat. Annual sourcing contracts also receive a 10% discount.

### Takeaway

Lighthouse is a strong fit for venture firms that want AI to maintain and query the CRM instead of adding another assistant on top of a conventional database. Technical teams will get the most from its MCP and workflow builder, but the core CRM, LinkedIn integration, meeting tools, and inbound agents are useful without a custom implementation.

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