Founder of a listed tool
Katie Brown
Co-founder and COO, Lightpanda, named behind the Lightpanda listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Katie 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 COO, Lightpanda, researched 30 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Francis Bouvier Co-founder and CEO, 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 Katie Brown?
Katie Brown is co-founder and COO 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 Katie'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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