YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Benedict Chan

Founder of Lightsprint, Collaborative product development with cloud agents

Company

Benedict Chan is listed as a founder of Lightsprint. 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).

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    Excited to join @Chainlink! Building infra for crypto is my passion.

    Excited to join @Chainlink! Building infra for crypto is my passion. Trustless digital agreements were a dream when I began my crypto journey. Today, scalable and reliable data networks for smart contracts is what I believe will unlock the next phase of growth for #DeFi.

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    Looking forward to the #SmartCon keynote today! I will be speaking about innovations in smart contract and #DeFi infrastructure.

    Looking forward to the #SmartCon keynote today! I will be speaking about innovations in smart contract and #DeFi infrastructure. https://t.co/DVvxTcyTE6

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    Happy to be judging this #defi hackathon with @KyberNetwork! Hoping to see interesting projects around @WrappedBTC and trustless swaps!

    Happy to be judging this #defi hackathon with @KyberNetwork! Hoping to see interesting projects around @WrappedBTC and trustless swaps!

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    I will be at the San Francisco Blockchain Week @SFBWOfficial on a panel about crypto custody.

    I will be at the San Francisco Blockchain Week @SFBWOfficial on a panel about crypto custody. Get in touch if you'd like to meet and talk wallets, custody, and scaling!