Gino Engels worked for about three years at AB InBev UK, then co-founded OTA Insight in Ghent, Belgium in 2012 with Matthias Geeroms. Geeroms had spent six years at the Belgian tax authority.
The product pulls room rates, demand and reviews into one live dashboard so hotels can price rooms with current data. Hoteliers in 185 countries now use it.
Spectrum Equity led an $80 million Series B in November 2021. In 2022 the company bought Transparent and Kriya RevGen, and in 2023 it rebranded as Lighthouse and moved its headquarters to London.
It acquired Stardekk in February 2024 and raised a $370 million Series C led by KKR in November 2024. In 2025 it won its fifth straight HotelTechAward.