Aarin Jhaveri is Co-Founder and CEO of Kara Labs (YC S26), a deep tech startup engineering single-crystal diamond as a next-generation material for AI infrastructure and semiconductor applications.

A 5th-generation diamantaire, Aarin studied Economics and Data Science at UC Berkeley and built deep expertise across the diamond value chain, selling over $5M in natural and lab-grown diamonds.

Aarin brings a rare combination of generational industry knowledge and technical vision, believing conventional materials like copper are reaching their thermal limits as AI processors scale in power density.

Kara Labs was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, securing $500K in seed funding, and is commercializing diamond-based thermal management solutions for high-power electronics while pursuing a long-term semiconductor roadmap.

Kara Labs is at the frontier of engineered materials for AI hardware, targeting the critical overheating challenge in data centers and positioning diamond as the next engineering material for the semiconductor industry.