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72nd percentile
YC Spring 2026 founder and Wavemaker Impact venture builder now launching Lightsprint
Credibility
Firm Standing · 72th percentile
- Publicly identified as an AI investor, with the YC company page for Lightsprint explicitly describing Ben Ong as an AI investor.
- 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.
Relationship Matrix
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
You'd get the most value from Festival events that put you in the room with YC Spring 2026 peers and AI dev-tools alumni who can fast-track warm intros to seed investors while your batch momentum is live. Roundtables that sharpen your founder-first positioning and help you cleanly separate the Lightsprint story from your Wavemaker Impact role will directly unblock fundraising conversations. Events that surface your SEA Group and Temasek enterprise pedigree to climate-tech and AI-focused seed funds are the highest-leverage use of your time right now.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC Spring 2026 founder dinner focused on AI developer tools, where you can trade warm intros with batchmates who have shipped in the collaborative software and dev-productivity space Lightsprint sits in
- fundraisingA seed-stage fundraising roundtable with partners from climate-tech and AI-focused funds (think Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Prelude, and Pear VC) where YC Spring 2026 founders pitch and get live feedback while batch credibility is at its peak
- positioningA YC alumni dinner for enterprise SaaS founders who scaled into large institutions, where you can workshop how to lead with your SEA Group and Temasek AI product pedigree rather than your investor identity in Lightsprint pitch materials
- tacticalAn intimate office hours session with YC alumni founders who have navigated active investor or venture-builder roles simultaneously, helping you build a clean, investor-ready answer to the Lightsprint-versus-Wavemaker Impact time and equity split question
- positioningA founder storytelling dinner with operators who have spun out ventures from large institutions like the World Economic Forum or Asian Development Bank, where you workshop turning the INCIT spin-off into a public case study that anchors Lightsprint's founder narrative
- tacticalA build-in-public happy hour for AI dev-tools founders with active GitHub presences, where you get tactical advice on which Lightsprint component to open-source first to build technical credibility with your target developer audience
- introsA dinner for founders and operators with SEA Group, Temasek, or GIC backgrounds to activate that enterprise alumni network for Lightsprint's first enterprise SaaS pilot conversations