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Kailash Labs

Active · A factory for small and specialized video reasoning models

WebsiteYC profile

Why it ranks

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7signal of 100 · rising 7
  • went through YCProgram · this site+4
  • team of 2Team size · YC's directory+2.5

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Competitors

AIPaper InstrumentsShared: post train, frontier model, openYC X25San FranciscoStartup →AIGeneral Context LabsShared: frontier model, buildingYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIAgnost AIShared: frontier model, train, runYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIGuide LabsShared: frontier modelYC W24San FranciscoStartup →AIMagnitudeShared: open model, runYC S25San FranciscoStartup →
Companies closest to Kailash Labs
Company
Paper InstrumentsShared: post train, frontier model, openYC X25ActiveAI
General Context LabsShared: frontier model, buildingYC S26ActiveAI
Agnost AIShared: frontier model, train, runYC S26 +1ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
Guide LabsShared: frontier modelYC W24ActiveAI, Devtools
MagnitudeShared: open model, runYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools

Adjacent

OtherTerra35Shared: almost none, realMassChallenge Switzerland and UK 2026IrelandStartup →AIMunito AIShared: open modelYC F26ParisStartup →AIRunAnywhereShared: open model, premYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIStellon LabsShared: edge computing semiconductors, frontier, modelYC S25San FranciscoStartup →OtherFerryShared: factorySeedcamp 2023Startup →
Companies next to Kailash Labs
Company
Terra35Shared: almost none, realMassChallenge Switzerland and UK 2026Not statedOther
Munito AIShared: open modelYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
RunAnywhereShared: open model, premYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
Stellon LabsShared: edge computing semiconductors, frontier, modelYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
FerryShared: factorySeedcamp 2023Not statedOther

Also from F26 in AI

All of F26
AIAsimEnable robots to operate safely in the real world.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AICleanWe predict when a company is about to buy.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIInfraOptimalSelf optimizing dedicated inference endpointsYC F26BostonStartup →AIORO AIRL environments & simulations for autonomous businesses.YC F26VancouverStartup →AIPetrichorWet lab infrastructure that turns AI experiments into training data.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIShire IntelligenceShire uses CCTV to run restaurants in real time.YC F26Myrtle BeachStartup →
Company
AsimEnable robots to operate safely in the real world.team of 4ActiveAI
CleanWe predict when a company is about to buy.team of 5ActiveAI
InfraOptimalSelf optimizing dedicated inference endpointsteam of 2ActiveAI
ORO AIRL environments & simulations for autonomous businesses.team of 2ActiveAI, Devtools
PetrichorWet lab infrastructure that turns AI experiments into training data.team of 3ActiveAI
Shire IntelligenceShire uses CCTV to run restaurants in real time.team of 4ActiveAI

Founders

  • shubham sharmaFounder/CEO

About Kailash Labs

The world generates petabytes of video every day, and almost none of it is readable to machines. Frontier VLMs that can unlock this (like Gemini) are too expensive to run at the volume real industries have, too generic for any single task, and can't be deployed on-prem where sensitive video lives. We are building an auto vision factory: take video plus a customer's objective, distill a frontier model, and post-train a small open model that is SOTA on that one task and serve it blazingly fast. Our first product, Marlin, is a 2B-parameter open-weights video VLM that matches Gemini-2.5-flash on dense captioning and temporal grounding at a fraction of the cost.

YC batch
F26 · Fall 2026
Status, per YC
Active
Category
AI, Data
Team size
2
Location
Bengaluru, KA, India
Founded
2026
Checked
7h ago

YC tags: Deep Learning, Edge Computing Semiconductors

Kailash Labs in F26: 219 companies, 89% AI

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Kailash Labs: questions

Which YC batch was Kailash Labs in?

Kailash Labs was in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch (F26).

Is Kailash Labs still active?

Y Combinator lists Kailash Labs as active.

Who founded Kailash Labs?

Kailash Labs's founders, as listed on its YC page: shubham sharma (Founder/CEO).

Where is Kailash Labs based?

Kailash Labs lists Bengaluru, KA, India as its location on YC's directory.