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Benedict Chan

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Benedict Chan
CEO & Co-Founder of
Lightsprint (2026)
About

Benedict Chan is Co-Founder at Lightsprint (YC P26), an AI-powered collaborative product development platform that enables non-engineering teammates to ship real features directly to production codebases.

Before founding

Benedict graduated from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) with a degree in Computer Science in 2009, and went on to build over a decade of deep engineering leadership across blockchain and fintech in Silicon Valley.

Founder Insights

Benedict is the creator of the world's first ETH multi-signature wallet and a founding member of the WBTC DAO, establishing him as a pioneering figure in decentralized finance infrastructure.

Experience

He served as CTO at BitGo (NYSE: BTGO), where he helped develop multi-signature wallet solutions that facilitated over 15% of global Bitcoin transactions, before becoming VP of Engineering at Chainlink Labs to build layer-2 scaling and decentralized oracle infrastructure.

Scale & Impact

At Lightsprint, Benedict is solving the engineering bottleneck that prevents non-technical teams from shipping product changes, backed by Y Combinator's P26 batch and a vision to democratize software development across entire organizations.

2075

Benedict Chan

Lightsprint
Co-Founder
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Benedict Chan

Company(s)

Lightsprint

Industry

SaaS

Year Founded

2026

Stage/Funding

Seed

Company Location

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About

Benedict Chan is Co-Founder at Lightsprint (YC P26), an AI-powered collaborative product development platform that enables non-engineering teammates to ship real features directly to production codebases.

Before founding

Benedict graduated from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) with a degree in Computer Science in 2009, and went on to build over a decade of deep engineering leadership across blockchain and fintech in Silicon Valley.

Founder Insights

Benedict is the creator of the world's first ETH multi-signature wallet and a founding member of the WBTC DAO, establishing him as a pioneering figure in decentralized finance infrastructure.

Experience

He served as CTO at BitGo (NYSE: BTGO), where he helped develop multi-signature wallet solutions that facilitated over 15% of global Bitcoin transactions, before becoming VP of Engineering at Chainlink Labs to build layer-2 scaling and decentralized oracle infrastructure.

Scale & Impact

At Lightsprint, Benedict is solving the engineering bottleneck that prevents non-technical teams from shipping product changes, backed by Y Combinator's P26 batch and a vision to democratize software development across entire organizations.

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