Where does Benedict Chan work?

Benedict Chan is Founder of Lightsprint.

What companies did Benedict Chan found?

Benedict Chan founded Lightsprint.

Where did Benedict Chan go to school?

Benedict Chan studied at UNSW (Computer Science, Networking, Neural Networks).

Benedict Chan

Founder

Founder at Lightsprint

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedLightsprint · YC

About

Benedict 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.

Founder at Lightsprint YC X26

Intro paths

Benedict went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator — the partner who ran Lightsprint's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Benedict can intro founders to Lightsprint's investors below.

Lightsprint's investors · 2

Sterling RoadSan Francisco · $50K – $150K checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Lightsprint

Ben OngFounder/CEO

Heng Hong LeeFounder

Experience

Lightsprint (YC P26)CTOcurrent2025 — present
Chainlink LabsVice President Of Engineering2020 — 2024
BitGo, Inc.Chief Technology Officer2014 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
SendHubPlatform Developer2013 — 2014Menlo Park, California
MicrosoftSoftware Development Engineer II2010 — 2013Sunnyvale, California
Fragnetics LLPPartner2004 — 2012
Manticore Investment GroupHead, Quantitative Strategies2008 — 2010
Zopim CommunicationsProduct Manager2010Singapore
Vr-ZoneDevOps Engineer2004 — 2010
University of New South WalesTutor2008 — 2009

Skills & more

Web Development10Software Engineering10Agile Methodologies4Software Development27Distributed Systems4Software Design4Object Oriented Design1Bitcoin2Networking4Trading SystemPython18Java16

+11 more

JavaScriptC++SQLNoSQLRubyPHPLinuxC#Ruby on RailsMySQLHumility

Languages C# · Erlang · Java · Node.JS · Python · Ruby

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Benedict Chan?: Benedict 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.
Where does Benedict Chan work?: Benedict Chan is Founder of Lightsprint.
What companies did Benedict Chan found?: Benedict Chan founded Lightsprint.
Where did Benedict Chan go to school?: Benedict Chan studied at UNSW (Computer Science, Networking, Neural Networks).