Our Mission is to be the most founder‑friendly accelerator around.
We invest in the whole founder, not the bottom line. We act like a startup, iterating and adapting alongside our teams. And we never stop working to support our Lighthouse Family.
About Lighthouse Labs
Lighthouse Labs has been Investing In The Lives of Founders™ since 2012 - when we launched our pilot program with a few teams and some big dreams. Since then, we’ve worked with hundreds of founders across sixteen cohorts and counting. Lighthouse Labs has invested over $2,300,000 and has never taken equity in the companies we serve and the founders we support. Simply put, we help good people with good ideas - and we love what we do.
Our Commitment to Our Community
Lighthouse Labs believes that the founders with the best ideas should be supported to their fullest potential and that innovation is exponentially strengthened when diverse perspectives and backgrounds are at the table. Our mission has always been to be the most founder-friendly accelerator around, and empowering diverse founders with revolutionary ideas - regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, disability, income, or gender identity - has been part of that mission from the start. As we continue to grow, we will intentionally and proactively uplift entrepreneurs who have been traditionally underserved and underinvested - including women, people of color, LGBTQ+, veterans, people with a disability, rural residents, immigrants, and otherwise underrepresented founders. Learn more about our commitment to authentic and sustainable diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Our Team
Our team is made up of founders, mentors, project managers, and community advocates with extensive experience in everything from B2B to B2C, small businesses to Fortune 100, and seed stage to scale. Lighthouse Labs is proud to work with a Board of Virginia’s most engaged entrepreneurial ecosystem supporters.
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Our Partners
It takes a village to build a startup support system and Lighthouse Labs could not be more thankful to have the best partners on our team as we invest in the founders of tomorrow.
Contact Christina Gunter, Director of Strategic Partnerships, to learn more about ways to partner with Lighthouse Labs → christina@lighthouselabsrva.com
