Benedict Chan

Founder at Lightsprint

Lightsprint· Spring 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @bencxr

2025CTO· Lightsprint (YC P26)

In tech · since 2004

Company

Lightsprint (YC P26)

Role

CTO

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Lightsprint

Collaborative product development with cloud agents

Spring 2026

Experience

Career

Lightsprint (YC P26)
CTO · 2025 – Present
2025
Chainlink Labs
Vice President Of Engineering · 2020 – 2024
2020
BitGo, Inc.
Chief Technology Officer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2014 – 2020
2014
SendHub
Platform Developer · Menlo Park, California · 2013 – 2014
2013
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer II · Sunnyvale, California · 2010 – 2013
2010
Fragnetics LLP
Partner · 2004 – 2012
2004
Manticore Investment Group
Head, Quantitative Strategies · 2008 – 2010
2008
Zopim Communications
Product Manager · Singapore · 2010
2010
Vr-Zone
DevOps Engineer · 2004 – 2010
2004
University of New South Wales
Tutor · 2008 – 2009
2008

Bio

Founder at Lightsprint, an AI-native loop for building products: decide → spec → ship → learn → repeat. Past: Engineering leadership — CTO @ BitGo (NYSE: BTGO), Head of Eng @ Chainlink, SDE2 @ Microsoft