About LightStart
LightStart, the digital design house, was founded by Simon Edwards and Dan Akers in mid-2016. The start-up tech firm builds digital products for its clients including mobile apps, web apps and the underlying platforms that drive them. The core team has 45 years of experience building and launching digital products.
LightStart are a thought-leader at the forefront of the digital community in Yorkshire and ensure this through its client projects, its labs projects and by running events for the local tech and business community. In 9 months, the company has grown its client base to include 12 businesses from digital start-ups through to £60M turnover businesses.
Uniquely, LightStart run free innovative events with an annual calendar of over 50 events, all of which are free to attend.
As well as building digital products for clients, LightStart has created LightStart LABS to build its own ideas and get them to market.