Arjun Lakhanpal is a Founder at Kara Labs (YC S26), a deep tech company making diamond an engineering material by producing single-crystal diamond substrates, engineered layers, membranes, and thermal materials for advanced hardware.

Arjun studied Computer Science, Data Science, and Applied Mathematics at UC Berkeley, bringing a rigorous technical foundation to the frontier of materials engineering.

Arjun previously worked in AI/ML at Amazon and Data at Salesforce, giving him a rare blend of software intelligence and data systems expertise before pivoting to deep tech manufacturing.

Kara Labs was founded in 2026 and accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, validating its mission to unlock diamond as a scalable engineering material for next-generation hardware.

Kara Labs engineers single-crystal diamond wafers specified, grown, and characterized for performance across quantum, photonic, optical, and high-power thermal applications, positioning it at the cutting edge of advanced materials.