Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight) provides market analysis, BI and pricing tools for the travel and hospitality industry. They help predict demand for hotels and flights, track pricing of competitors, monitor performance and solve parity issues in a single platform. Their clients range from AirBnB hosts to major hotel chains.
Founded in Belgium in 2012 and now headquartered in the UK, Lighthouse raised a $370m Series C funding in 2024, achieving unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1bn. The funding round was led by KKR and other existing investors.
Verhoeven joined the company in 2014 as a software engineer and was promoted to become CTO in 2022. He hold a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Computer Science from Ghent University.