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LightSprint

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Lightsprint is a collaborative software factory for product teams to plan visually, preview live and ship with an army of cloud agents. Your whole team, including non-engineers, can now ship end to end reliably.

The company is founded by Ben Ong, an AI investor who previously scaled AI products at SEA Group (NYSE: SE) and Temasek ($300B fund), Benedict Chan who was VP Engineering at Chainlink and CTO at BitGo (NYSE:BTGO), and Heng Hong Lee who built Facebook Messenger in 2013 and was Director of Engineering at Fazz (YC S17).

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Lightsprint

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Ben Ong

Founder/CEO

Founder at Lightsprint (YC P26). Ex-VC at January Capital and venture builder at Temasek's venture studio (300B fund). Scaled products in SE group (NYSE: SE, Southeast Asia's unicorn). Prev data scientist at Cheetah Digital.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Benedict Chan

Founder

Founder at Lightsprint, an AI-native loop for building products: decide → spec → ship → learn → repeat. Past: Engineering leadership — CTO @ BitGo (NYSE: BTGO), Head of Eng @ Chainlink, SDE2 @ Microsoft

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Heng Hong Lee

Founder

Founder at Lightsprint (YC P26). Previously Principal Engineer at HQ.xyz and Head of Engineering at Xweave. Founded Tempest, a custodial Lightning wallet. Led engineering at FAZZ Financial Group for 4 years. Senior Software Engineer at Facebook for 5 years. BA in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2026 · Source

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Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Launched · 4 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-11-03

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