Lightsprint
YC X26San Francisco, US · Founded 2026 · 3 employees · Hiring · 2 known investors
Lightsprint is an AI-native platform where developers, product managers, and designers plan, build, and ship software together using parallel cloud agents. It works with existing codebases and integrates with GitHub, Linear, and Slack to streamline the full software development lifecycle from requirements to production.
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (X26)
Lightsprint was founded in 2026 by Ben Ong, Benedict Chan, and Heng Hong Lee.
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Benedict Chanin𝕏Co-founder · CTOBenedict Chan held engineering leadership roles including CTO at BitGo, Head of Engineering at Chainlink, and SDE2 at Microsoft before founding Lightsprint, an AI-native product development platform.
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Heng Hong Leein𝕏Co-FounderHe previously held engineering leadership roles at HQ.xyz and Xweave, founded a custodial Lightning wallet called Tempest, spent four years in engineering at FAZZ Financial Group, and worked as a senior software engineer at Facebook for five years. He holds a BA in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Investors · 2
The YC application· Spring 2026 batch
Alumni Q&A
- What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
- The founders observe that non-engineering product changes such as copy edits, pricing updates, or business logic tweaks typically stall behind engineering sprints, with PMs filing tickets and waiting weeks. They note that coding agents sped up engineers but not the rest of the product team, while tools aimed at non-technical builders only create new prototypes rather than modifying existing products. The three founders encountered the problem from different angles: Ben as an investor and former PM at SEA Group, Heng Hong from inside engineering, and Benedict from infrastructure.
- What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
- The founders aim for everyone at a company, not only engineers, to be able to ship product changes, reducing engineering backlogs to a review queue where aggregated review comments feed back to an agent that self-corrects before an engineer intervenes. They compare the intended shift to how spreadsheets opened data work to non-finance staff and how Canva opened design to non-designers, with engineers focusing on architecture and harder problems.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Lightsprint do?
- Lightsprint is an AI-native platform where developers, product managers, and designers plan, build, and ship software together using parallel cloud agents. It works with existing codebases and integrates with GitHub, Linear, and Slack to streamline the full software development lifecycle from requirements to production.
- Who founded Lightsprint?
- Lightsprint was founded by Ben Ong, Benedict Chan, Heng Hong Lee in 2026.
- Who are Lightsprint's investors?
- Lightsprint's investors include Sterling Road, Y Combinator.
- Where is Lightsprint headquartered?
- Lightsprint is headquartered in San Francisco, US.