Lightbase closes €2.2M pre-seed round, launches AI developer tool

Madrid-based Lightbase, an AI-powered developer
tools platform, announced its official launch along with a €2.2 million pre-seed funding round.
The investment will fuel Lightbase’s mission to accelerate the pace at which
engineering teams deliver value by eliminating one of their most persistent
bottlenecks: knowledge fragmentation.

The round
was led by Picus Capital, with participation from Kfund, Helloworld, and angel investors Jorge Poyatos, Albert Nieto, Christian Beedgen, and Rodrigue
Schäfer.

In growing engineering organisations, the real productivity bottleneck
isn’t writing code, it’s finding and sharing the knowledge needed to change it.
Developers spend roughly a third of their time coding, with the rest lost to
meetings, interruptions, and coordination. Senior engineers carry the heaviest
load, fielding questions and mentoring. The problem deepens with new hires, who
face a steep learning curve and remain dependent on teammates because there’s
no reliable, self-serve way to navigate the codebase. When experienced
engineers switch teams or leave, critical context disappears, creating costly,
hard-to-close knowledge gaps.

Lightbase, an AI-powered code intelligence platform, solves this by
turning codebases and engineering tools into a living knowledge system. It plugs
directly into repos and workflows, analyses the code, and uses AI to deliver
instant, accurate answers about how your systems work, far beyond what generic
AI coding assistants provide. The result: fewer interrupts, faster onboarding,
preserved institutional knowledge, and a meaningful lift in real engineering
throughput.

As teams scale and
systems grow more complex, Lightbase gives engineers, product managers, and new
hires rapid insight into architecture, data flows, and dependencies. This
reduces constant pings to senior developers and can free up to 50 per cent of
time lost each week to onboarding, meetings, and repeated explanations.

This pre-seed investment will accelerate Lightbase’s product
development and expand its engineering team. Following strong results with
early customers, Lightbase is opening its platform to more companies across
Europe and North America.