Partners of Lightbringer
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Innovation
The innovation ecosystem is the inventor's proving ground for big ideas. It's where founders, engineers, and investors turn breakthrough tech into market advantage.
Funding
The funding ecosystem is the catalyst behind early-stage ambition. It's where bold ideas meet capital, turning prototypes into products and vision into velocity.
Service
The service ecosystem is the backbone of scaling innovation. It's where experts, tools, and platforms help founders move faster and build smarter.
Innovation ecosystem
Meet our parters within the innovation ecosystem.
Nordic Hardtech
Nordic Hardtech is the leading platform dedicated to building and strengthening the hardtech ecosystem across the Nordic region. We bring together entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, and enablers around one mission: to accelerate innovation in complex, physical technologies where hardware meets software and services.
Our work spans multiple formats – from newsletters and podcasts to events and databases – all aimed at sharing knowledge, connecting people, and enabling hardtech companies to grow from prototype to global scale. We cover sectors such as AI, robotics, energy, mobility, semiconductors, healthtech, space, and advanced manufacturing, focusing where physical innovation creates lasting impact.
With roots in the Nordic tradition of engineering excellence and sustainability, Nordic Hardtech supports startups and scaleups while also engaging large industrial players, policymakers, and researchers. Together, we aim to enhance the region’s competitiveness, drive the climate transition, and build resilience through world-class hardtech entrepreneurship.
Ideon
Ideon Science Park is one of Europe’s leading deep tech and innovation hubs. located in Lund, Sweden. Ideon has brought together startups, researchers, and entrepreneurs to turn groundbreaking ideas into real-world solutions Since 1983.
Deep tech refers to cutting-edge technologies based on scientific or engineering breakthroughs that require significant R&D and have the potential to solve complex societal or industrial challenges.
Innovation Pioneers
Innovation Pioneers is a collective learning platform where innovation leaders, strategists, and practitioners come together to shape the future.
Founded in 2008, we bring together a dynamic mix of companies, government agencies, academia, startups, and research institutions — all united by a shared mission: to build stronger innovation capabilities through collaboration, experimentation, and shared learning.
Our members are forward-thinking organizations and individuals who work with innovation both strategically and hands-on. They are visionaries and doers — leaders who believe that learning together is the fastest path to real change. Together, we don’t just talk about innovation — we co-create it.
techUK
techUK is the trade association which brings together people, companies and organisations to realise the positive outcomes of what digital technology can achieve. With over 1,100 members (the majority of which are SMEs) across the UK, techUK creates a network for innovation and collaboration across business, government and stakeholders to provide a better future for people, society, the economy and the planet.
By providing expertise and insight, we support our members, partners and stakeholders as they prepare the UK for what comes next in a constantly changing world.
Funding ecosystem
Meet our parters within the funding ecosystem.
Luminar Ventures
Luminar Ventures is a seed-focused VC firm headquartered in Stockholm, helping Nordic startups scale globally. We backed Lightbringer in 2024, and we're incredibly excited to be a part of this journey to automate and accelerate IP protection.
Alliance VC
Alliance VC is a leading Nordic early-stage venture firm. We invest in exceptional technology startups founded by entrepreneurs with global ambitions. The Alliance VC team is a mix of experienced startup founders and venture capitalists.
Evolution
Evolution Europe is a leading consultancy specializing in fundraising and strategic advisory for innovative European companies, from cutting-edge deep-tech start-ups to medium and large enterprises. We combine over 20 years of experience with a proven track record, having secured more than €200 million in EU grants and over €25 million from Spanish national programs for our clients.
Our services span grant funding and venture capital fundraising. On the grant side, we guide clients through European programs (EIC funding, Eurostars, collaborative Horizon Europe projects), as well as Spanish schemes at local, regional, and national levels (CDTI, IDAE, Enisa). For private funding, we connect companies with venture capital investors and help craft compelling investment materials.
Beyond fundraising, we offer Spanish tax consultancy, advising on R&D tax deductions and social security bonuses. Each year, we support over 300 clients across industries such as cleantech, medtech, biotechnology, robotics, ICT & AI, aviation, transport, smart cities, cybersecurity, agri-food, automotive, and pharmaceuticals.
Our diverse team of 60+ professionals, combining scientific expertise (PhDs and postdoctoral researchers) with strong business and financial backgrounds, delivers tailored strategies to help companies maximize innovation funding and accelerate growth.
Service ecosystem
Meet our parters within the service ecosystem.
IP Steading
IPsteading empowers innovators, entrepreneurs, and SMEs to transform ideas into protected and scalable growth. By combining legal expertise in intellectual property with strategic business advisory – with a focus on fractional Chief IP Officer (CIPO) roles and Senior IP Advisory – IPsteading helps clients not only safeguard their innovations but also leverage them as powerful drivers of profitability and expansion.
With a modern and accessible approach, IPsteading makes the often-complex world of patents, trademarks, and design rights simple and business-focused. Through our advisory services, courses, and memberships, we go beyond building holistic IP portfolios, we help raise IP understanding and capability across the organisation. Because intellectual property affects every part of your business, from R&D and marketing to sales and leadership, we ensure IP becomes embedded in your business culture, driving smarter decisions and sustainable growth.
If you are an early-stage company securing your first investment, or an established SME expanding internationally, we can help you out. And if you also believe IP knowledge shouldn’t rest with just one person, but be shared and embedded in the organisation, then we’re not just a good match – we’re the perfect one.
DigIP
Digip is a trademark and brand protection management platform designed to help businesses protect, manage, and grow their brands globally. Covering 190+ countries, Digip simplifies the complex and costly process of trademark management by combining expert legal guidance with technology in one centralized platform.
Companies can search, register, monitor, and enforce their trademarks in a single place, replacing manual and fragmented workflows. AI-powered tools turn trademark data into actionable intelligence, giving legal and marketing teams the insights they need to act quickly and make better decisions.
Cost transparency is at the core of Digip’s model. Its pricing eliminates hidden fees and decentralization costs, giving predictable, efficient control over trademark budgets. Enterprise-grade security ensures sensitive brand data is protected at every step.
Whether for startups securing their first trademark or enterprises managing global portfolios, Digip reduces the risk of infringement, streamlines portfolio management, and keeps teams ahead of potential threats. By blending technology with legal expertise, Digip allows businesses to focus on growth, knowing their most valuable asset, their brand, is protected.
Communigage
At Communigage we know inventors are brilliant at building things the world has never seen before, but that brilliance doesn’t always translate when it’s time to talk about it. That’s where we come in: we help you get past the “wait, slow down” moments, turning complex ideas into stories that click.
We don’t do boring corporate waffle or overblown hype. We find the clear, sharp words that carry the same spark as the thing you’ve built. Sometimes that’s a brand story, sometimes it’s a pitch, sometimes it’s just making sure your website doesn’t sound like it was written by a committee of beige robots.
Think of us as translators for your genius. You build the world-changing stuff. We make sure the world understands it, wants it, and remembers it.