The London foodtech company began with personalised lunches and no cashiers. Then restaurant operators made the founders an offer they could not ignore: forget the bowls, sell us the operating system.
Lighthouse started by showing hotels what competitors charged. Now it wants to become the commercial operating system behind every room sold - a much bigger promise, backed by a much bigger check.
H2O Hospitality is a Seoul-founded hospitality technology company that digitizes hotel operations end to end - from booking and mobile check-in to revenue and facility management. Its flagship platform, H2O Flow, connects reservation, property, revenue and facility systems into one workflow, and was the first service in Asia to achieve a validated integration with Oracle's OPERA PMS. Founded in 2015 by Cornell-trained, Forbes 30 Under 30 CEO John (Woong Hee) Lee, the company manages roughly 210,000 room units across seven countries and has raised about $48.5M, including a $30M Series C led by Kakao Investment and Korea Development Bank in 2021.