Founder of a listed tool
Francis Bouvier
Co-founder and CEO, Lightpanda, named behind the Lightpanda listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Francis builds
Lightpanda C · Browser automation
Lightpanda is an open-source headless browser written in Zig, with the V8 JavaScript engine and no graphical rendering. Agents drive it on their own machine over CDP, WebDriver BiDi, a built-in MCP server or a CLI, or through Lightpanda Cloud.
Co-founder and CEO, Lightpanda, researched 30 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Katie Brown Co-founder and COO, Lightpanda
- Pierre Tachoire Co-founder and CTO, Lightpanda
Backed by
ISAI Kima Ventures Factorial Capital Prototype Capital Arthur Mensch Julien Chaumond Thomas Wolf Stanislas Polu Gabriel Hubert Mehdi Ghissassi Matthieu Rouif Benjamin Fabre Sébastien Chopin Kevin Cohen Luc Delsalle Thibaud Elzière Arnaud Ferreri Yann Fleureau Anis Gandoura Emmanuel Gras Jérôme Joaug Quentin Nickmans Amaury Sepulchre Nicolas Steegmann Roxanne Varza
Questions
Who is Francis Bouvier?
Francis Bouvier is co-founder and CEO of Lightpanda.
What does Selecy SAS (Lightpanda) make?
Anchor Terminal lists Lightpanda from Selecy SAS (Lightpanda). Lightpanda is an open-source headless browser written in Zig, with the V8 JavaScript engine and no graphical rendering. Agents drive it on their own machine over CDP, WebDriver BiDi, a built-in MCP server or a CLI, or through Lightpanda Cloud.
Who has invested in Selecy SAS (Lightpanda)?
The sources our research read name ISAI, Kima Ventures, Factorial Capital, Prototype Capital, Arthur Mensch, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf, Stanislas Polu, Gabriel Hubert, Mehdi Ghissassi, Matthieu Rouif, Benjamin Fabre, Sébastien Chopin, Kevin Cohen, Luc Delsalle, Thibaud Elzière, Arnaud Ferreri, Yann Fleureau, Anis Gandoura, Emmanuel Gras, Jérôme Joaug, Quentin Nickmans, Amaury Sepulchre, Nicolas Steegmann and Roxanne Varza.
How are Francis's tools graded?
Lightpanda is graded C, 61.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (9)
- https://lightpanda.io/legal
- https://lightpanda.io/llms.txt
- https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/lightpanda-1-0
- https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/benchmarking-ai-native-headless-browsers
- https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/lightpanda-raises-preseed
- https://lightpanda.io/blog/tags/fundraising
- https://lightpanda.io/jobs
- https://lightpanda.io/pricing
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lightpanda-io/browser/main/SECURITY.md
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