Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Finance

WEBSITE

https://www.light.inc

About the company

Light builds an AI-native finance and ERP platform aimed at multinational companies, covering workflows like AR, AP, expenses, bookkeeping, and consolidated financial reporting. Light was founded in 2022 by Jonathan Sanders (CEO) and Filip Kozjak (CTO). On September 25, 2025, Light announced a $30m Series A led by Balderton Capital, taking total funding to $43m. The company positions the product as a replacement for legacy ERPs and “finance frankenstacks” used by fast-growing teams.

Locations and presence

Light presents a London HQ with a distributed team across Europe and the Americas. Public company listings also cite Copenhagen as headquarters, and several roles have been advertised with London office time alongside remote options.

Palpable Score

61.2

/ 100

Light has credible junior-to-mid access in commercial and customer-facing roles, and the hiring process is unusually explicit about who you meet and the steps involved. The main limiter is that most publicly visible engineering roles are pitched at 4+ years, and there’s very little published evidence of early-career progression, promotions, or retention.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

11.0

/ 20

The company has advertised “Junior and Mid level” roles like Global Content and Events with a stated £30–40k range.
Light has also listed a Senior Customer Solution Engineer as “Junior and Mid level,” which creates an entry route for early-career candidates who can handle integrations and onboarding work.
The company’s more technical postings that are easy to verify skew senior, including “Who you are: 4+ years” on a Senior Software Engineer listing, which narrows entry-level access in engineering.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

15.3

/ 20

The company spells out a concrete interview flow for roles like Senior Customer Solution Engineer: meetings with Chief of Staff, Sales, and the CEO.
Light uses structured, role-relevant tasks in some hiring, such as a design challenge for Global Content and Events, followed by a review with the Design team.
The company makes senior stakeholders visible in the process by naming interviewers (for example, Chief of Staff and CEO), which reduces ambiguity for candidates.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

12.3

/ 20

The company’s benefits language on public job pages explicitly mentions mentoring and coaching from senior design and engineering leaders, which is a positive signal even without details.
Light bakes in cross-functional exposure in roles like Senior Customer Solution Engineer, which includes collaboration with product, design, and engineering during onboarding and integrations.
The company does not publish a concrete early-career ramp plan (onboarding weeks, buddy system, review cadence), so it’s hard to judge how consistent support is for someone in their first or second job.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

14.3

/ 20

The company has published salary ranges for some roles, including £30–40k for Global Content and Events and £40–60k plus equity for Senior Customer Solution Engineer.
Light lists benefits that matter for stability, including 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays, and stock options on public job pages.
The company does not consistently show compensation for the full spread of roles (especially technical roles on the main ATS), which limits pay transparency for early-career applicants comparing offers.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

8.3

/ 20

The company has publicly described aggressive growth plans after the September 25, 2025 Series A, including a stated intention to triple the engineering team by Q2 2026, but that is not the same as showing junior progression.
Light’s publicly visible junior-to-mid hiring examples (content/events and customer solutions) show entry routes, but there’s no published evidence of promotion timelines, internal mobility, or retention for those hires.
The company’s LinkedIn profile provides a broad size band (51–200 employees), but LinkedIn alone does not show whether early-career hires get promoted or stay beyond 12–24 months.

Useful links & resources

Light Careers Light on Welcome to the Jungle Light on LinkedIn