LightSprint

YC company profile

Software factory for product teams

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).

• YC batch: Spring 2026
• Founded: 2026
• Team size: 3
• Location: San Francisco
• Country: US
• Status: Active
• Industry: B2B
• Stage: Early
• YC partner: Garry Tan

Founders

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.

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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

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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.

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What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?

Product changes (a copy tweak, a pricing page update, a new business logic update) often wait behind an engineering sprint. The PM files a ticket. Follows up in standup. Two weeks later, it ships.

Coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code made engineers 10x faster, but that speed never reached the rest of the product team. The PM still files a ticket and waits. The tools pitched at "non-technical builders" - Lovable, Replit - only spin up new prototypes from scratch. None of them touch the product you actually run.

Each of us hit this from a different side. Ben saw this bottleneck from the investor seat through his portfolio companies and during his time at SEA group as a PM. Heng Hong saw it from inside engineering: engineer time burned on changes anyone should be able to make. Benedict saw it from infrastructure: the plumbing to let non-engineers ship safely didn't exist yet.

What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?

Every person at a company will be able to ship product changes, not just engineers. The barrier between having an idea and shipping it disappears.   

PMs won't file tickets. Designers won't hand off mockups and wait. Founders won't choose between learning to code or hiring an engineer for a copy change. Engineering backlogs will shrink from bottleneck to review queue. Review comments get aggregated and fed back to the agent, which self-heals before an engineer steps in.

Engineers will focus on architecture, infrastructure, and the hard problems - while everyone else ships the changes they're closest to the customer to make. Software development becomes a team sport. We think this is as big a shift as when spreadsheets let non-finance people work with data, or when Canva let non-designers create graphics. Product agents will do the same for software.

Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.