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Lightsprint

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Collaborative product development platform

Spring 2026Founded 20263 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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AI-Assisted Product DevelopmentSaaSSoftware development teamsHigh competition
Moat
First-mover advantage in visual AI-assisted product shipping with retained team expertise from blockchain and fintech.
Key risk
Intense competition from GitHub Copilot integrations and Vercel's ecosystem; adoption friction for visual workflows.
Why now
AI coding agents demand new collaboration paradigms; teams need visual feedback for non-engineers.
Competitors
GitHub, Vercel, LinearB, Figma for design teams

About

Lightsprint is a collaborative platform for software 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).

Founders ยท 3

Benedict Chan
Benedict ChanFounder
Microsoft

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

Heng Hong Lee
Heng Hong LeeFounder
Meta๐ŸŽ“ National University of Singapore๐ŸŽ“ National University๐ŸŽ“ University of Singapore

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.

Ben Ong
Ben OngFounder

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.

B2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsGenerative AIB2BEnterprise SoftwareAI

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