Bringing RVs into the electric age.
Location: United States
Total raised: $60.6M
Founded date: 2018
Founders name: Brian Lovett
Founders Related Locations: United States, California, Belmont; United States, California, Cupertino; United States, California, Palo Alto; United States, California, San Francisco
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Climactic | climactic.... |
| 09.02.2024 | Allegis Ca... | allegiscap... |
| 18.05.2023 | Congruent ... | congruentv... |
| 07.11.2023 | Jetstream | jetstream.... |
| - | Yash Godiw... | yashgodiwa... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 12.12.2025 | Series C | $26.6M | - |
| 20.01.2024 | Series B | $34M | - |
Persons 1
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | |||
| - | Brian | Lovett | Co-Founder | linkedin.c... | - | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.12.2025 | Lightship Energy raises $26.6M in Series C round | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lightship Energy Inc., a Broomfield-based all-electric recreational-vehicle manufacturer, has secured $26.6 million in its latest funding round, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and E... |
| 20.01.2024 | Lightship Raises $34 Million for Electric RV: Startup Funding Roundup | Six travel startups announced fundraises of more than $208 million this week. >>Lightship, which is developing a fully electric RV, has raised $34 million in series B funding. It was co-led by Obvious Ventures and Prelude Ventures, wi... |
| 19.01.2024 | Business | RV company to produce electrically assisted travel trailers in Broomfield | In about two days, when the Wi-Fi is connected, a startup company from San Francisco will begin to produce a new line of electric travel trailers in a Broomfield facility. Lightship Energy Inc. will build its one and only product at the pla... |
| 17.01.2024 | Lightship Raises $34M in Series B Funding | Lightship, a San Francisco, CA-based all-electric RV company, closed a $34m Series B financing. The round was co-led by Obvious Ventures and Prelude Ventures and joined by Allegis Capital and global RV manufacturer THOR Industries and its i... |
| 31.05.2023 | Lightship to build all-electric RVs in Broomfield | Recreational-vehicle builder Lightship on Wednesday said that it has leased a 32,000-square-foot facility in Broomfield to house the San Francisco-based company’s pilot manufacturing operations for the Lightship L1, an aerodynamic, solar- a... |
| 14.03.2023 | Inside Lightship’s electric RV | Lightship finally showed off to the world — or at least those attending SXSW in Austin this week — a prototype of the L1, an all-electric RV designed to remove a barrier for owners of all-electric SUVs and trucks who want to haul a travel t... |
| 13.07.2022 | Meet the all-electric RV startup steered by Tesla alumni | What started as a pet project to electrify food trucks in the San Francisco Bay area — an enterprise inspired by the cacophony of generators that greeted Ben Parker every day during his lunch break at Tesla — has evolved into a much larger,... |
| - | Tesla alums launch a new electric RV startup: Lightship | A bunch of Tesla alums has launched a new electric RV startup with its first product being a travel trailer equipped with an electric powertrain to help increase the range of an electric vehicle towing a trailer. At Electrek, we have been a... |
| - | Lightship | “Lightship is the first American all-electric recreational vehicle company bringing travel trailers into the electric age.” |