Lightfield a16z funding announcement

    by Nate: Tech

    Lightfield just closed $45M from a16z because slapping a chatbot on a legacy CRM doesn't make an agentic platform. Real GTM strategy needs deep context, which is why the demo highlights a customer context engine pulling enriched accounts and ten vendor contacts to spot stalled deals at Johnson Controls before any automation even starts.

    Transcript (en)

    Show of hands, how many of you have used Lightfield before or have seen it? I'll start by saying everything that's in this demo instance was put in automatically. So I've got up-to-date accounts that are enriched, using a couple of different providers. I've got a contact book that's been filled out by about 10 different vendors. And then I sort of have tasks and meetings here. Well, no meetings just yet. And this is sort of the base of my customer context engine that I'm going to use to sort of build a go-to-market on top. So, you know, on that note, let's try to work a deal. You know, we are selling process automation to actually this very large company, Johnson Controls. And I'll pop this open. I'm sort of scrolling through our timeline of information. We've updated the opportunity. But if I read the summary here in Lightfield, you know, it looks like the deal is stalled. So before I build any automations, before I build my go to market, I'm gonna ask Lightfield what to do here.