Light, a finance platform built with AI, has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Balderton Capital, bringing total funding to $43 million. The company has reported that businesses are replacing legacy finance systems with its platform, resulting in reductions in finance operations time compared with traditional ERP tools. Light was built to overcome the limitations of financial systems designed for a different era. Whereas many providers retrofit artificial intelligence onto decades-old infrastructure, Light has embedded AI at its core, creating a platform that is adaptive, self-improving, and designed for scale. Its capabilities are transformative: while traditional systems falter at processing one million records, Light can handle 280 million in less than a second. Balance sheets are generated instantly, while multi-entity accounting, cross-border payments, and expense management are automated across jurisdictions. Accuracy matches human precision while exceeding it in the detection of errors. The platform is already trusted by high-growth businesses, including Lovable, Sana, and Legora, who have consolidated fragmented finance tools into Light’s single system of record. By integrating with global infrastructure providers such as JP Morgan, Adyen, and BDO, Light combines the reliability of enterprise-grade systems with the agility demanded by modern companies. Its engineering team, with experience at Spotify, Google, Klarna, AWS, Booking.com, and Shopify, is building a finance system engineered for global scale rather than rigid workflows.