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Founder30
16th percentile
Investor31
65th percentile
YC Spring 2026Serial FounderAngel Investor
Investor Matrix
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Firm Standing · 80th percentile
- Currently a Venture Builder at Wavemaker Impact, the first climate venture build VC in Southeast Asia, functioning as an active GP/fund-manager role co-founding portfolio companies.
Founder score
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Y Combinator Spring 2026 alum via Lightsprint.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Current founder of Lightsprint, a collaborative product development platform backed by Y Combinator Spring 2026.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Lightsprint was co-founded with Benedict Chan (VP Engineering at Chainlink, CTO background), confirming a co-founder relationship.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Past stealth-mode founder who built and spun off the International Centre for Industrial Transformation (INCIT) as a joint venture with the World Economic Forum.
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Publicly identified as an AI investor, with the YC company page for Lightsprint explicitly describing Ben Ong as an AI investor.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Currently a Venture Builder at Wavemaker Impact, the first climate venture build VC in Southeast Asia, functioning as an active GP/fund-manager role co-founding portfolio companies.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Has been investing and deploying capital in an active venture-building capacity since at least 2023 via Wavemaker Impact.
What you likely need
Ben is a current YC Spring 2026 founder (Lightsprint) with a strong background in venture building, AI investing, and economic development across Southeast Asia. His dual role as a founder and climate-tech venture builder at Wavemaker Impact gives him a rare operator-investor profile. He should focus on leveraging his YC network to accelerate Lightsprint's early traction and fundraising while clarifying his positioning between founder and investor.
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- introsActivate your YC Spring 2026 network immediately — request warm intros to YC alumni founders and investors who have shipped AI developer tools, as Lightsprint's positioning overlaps heavily with that cohort.
- fundraisingPrioritize closing a seed round while YC momentum is fresh — your AI investor background and Wavemaker Impact affiliation give you credibility to approach climate-tech and AI-focused seed funds simultaneously.
- positioningSharpen your public positioning as a founder first — your LinkedIn headline ('Venture Builder | Impact Investor') may dilute the founder signal that enterprise software buyers and investors look for when evaluating Lightsprint.
- positioningLeverage your SEA Group (NYSE: SE) and Temasek experience explicitly in Lightsprint's pitch materials — enterprise credibility from scaled AI product work at a $300B fund is a strong differentiator for enterprise SaaS buyers.
- tacticalClarify the time and equity split between Lightsprint and your Wavemaker Impact Venture Builder role — investors will ask, and a clean answer prevents deal hesitation.
- tacticalEstablish a public GitHub presence for Lightsprint — as a collaborative platform for software teams, open-sourcing a component or publishing a demo repo would build technical credibility with your target developer audience.
- positioningDocument the INCIT spin-off story publicly (blog post or case study) — building and spinning off a joint venture with the World Economic Forum and Asian Development Bank is a compelling founder narrative that is currently invisible outside your LinkedIn.