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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 Engine

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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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 Engine

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Lightsprint is classified as AI agents from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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LightsprintFacebook MessengerAI products
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Lightsprint

AI agents · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Bayesline

match 54

Bayesline is building a GPU-powered financial analytics suite for institutional investors, like hedge funds. Clients use our cloud deployed solution to build custom analytics in seconds, having previously been frustrated with off the shelf solutions that don't generate any alpha. What used to take weeks or months now happens near instantly. Sebastian, CFA (ex Bloomberg Quant & AI Research) and Misha, PhD (ex BlackRock Managing Director) met while working at BlackRock in 2016. With a combined 20

shared product terms: investor, fund, cloud, previously; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Grouper

match 46

Grouper is a social club that sets up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls (or 3 guys and 3 guys, etc.). Grouper started in New York in the summer of 2011 and now organizes Groupers in major cities across the US. Members have shared tens of thousands of drinks. The company was founded by Michael Waxman, a Yale grad and developer who formerly started language-learning company Batiq, and Tom Brown, an MIT engineer who was an early employee at MoPub (acquired by Twitter for 350MM)

shared product terms: group, now, found, who; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

SharpestMinds

match 41

SharpestMinds is a mentorship program for data scientists based on income share agreements. Experienced engineers mentor aspiring data scientists, who then pay the engineers back a percentage of their first year's salary after they're hired. SharpestMinds mentors come from world leading AI groups at top companies including Apple, Uber, Tesla, Facebook and Amazon.

shared product terms: includ, engineer, who, group; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

HumanLayer

match 38

HumanLayer is an IDE and collaborative cloud platform that helps software engineers solve hard problems in complex codebases. Ship 2-3x faster without AI slopping up your codebase.

shared product terms: collaborative, cloud, engineer, ship; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Take App

match 33

Ecommerce for WhatsApp. We make commerce more intuitive and accessible by simplifying WhatsApp ordering. Founder Youmin Kim is ex-Facebook Engineering Manager who launched Facebook Marketplace and Messaging Commerce in SE Asia.

shared product terms: facebook, engineer, who, se; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Agency

match 33

Agency replaces traditional security and compliance headcount with AI without replacing your existing tools. Our platform is operated by forward-deployed engineers who run your entire security and compliance program including full virtual CISO coverage on your behalf. All powered by our proprietary AI agents. Agency is a vertically integrated AI platform and services company that enables organizations to achieve and maintain SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC 2.0, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, HITRUST, ISO 42001, a

shared product terms: includ, engineer, who; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator