Ben Ong is CEO and Co-Founder of Lightsprint (YC P26), an AI-native collaborative platform that enables software teams to plan visually, preview live, and ship with cloud agents.

Ben built his career as a venture capitalist at January Capital and as a venture builder at Temasek's venture studio, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds with $300B AUM, before scaling AI products at SEA Group (NYSE: SE).

Ben brings a rare blend of investor acumen and operator experience, having evaluated and built AI-driven products across Southeast Asia's most influential tech ecosystems.

Prior to Lightsprint, Ben led product initiatives at SEA Group and served as a data scientist at Cheetah Digital, giving him deep cross-functional expertise across product, data, and venture.

Lightsprint, backed by Y Combinator (P26) and investors including Rebel Fund and Sterling Road, is redefining how software teams collaborate with AI agents, compressing multi-day development cycles into hours.