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James Cuff

James Cuff is the co-founder and CTO of Lightstrike, a developer tools and AI agents company based in Calgary. James Cuff co-founded Lightstrike with Vernon Briggs. Lightstrike raised a C$1.1M pre-seed round in November 2024 led by Sprout Fund II.

Co-founder & CTO of Lightstrike.

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Lightstrike

LLM-driven technical-debt observability platform that ingests enterprise source code and maps application dependencies.

Role
Co-founder & CTO
HQ
Calgary, AB
Founded
2024
Status
Active
Disclosed raised
C$1.1M
Latest round
Pre-seed, Nov 20, 2024
Website
lightstrike.ai

Co-founders: Vernon Briggs

Investors: Sprout Fund II, The Binnacle Group, Weave VC

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Data as of November 10, 2026.

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