Lightsprint YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Lightsprint went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Spring 2026
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Ben OngFounder/CEO
Benedict ChanFounder
Heng Hong LeeFounder

What Lightsprint does

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).

Lightsprint's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lightsprint, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lightsprint

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Collaborative product development platform

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built Lightsprint, a platform where software teams can plan visually, preview changes live, and ship with cloud agents handling builds and tests. It's designed so everyone on the team, including product managers and designers, can contribute to shipping software reliably and faster.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we all currently live and has vibrant engineering and startup communities. Staying here keeps us close to customers and partners in B2B and AI spaces.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lightsprint YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Lightsprint's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Lightsprint would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.