Dev Mandal is Co-Founder at Markov Studios, a Y Combinator Summer 2026-backed company sourcing high-quality tasks and data to train the next generation of computer-use AI models.

Dev studied Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras and previously worked at Sarvam, India's leading AI startup, gaining deep expertise in AI systems and data infrastructure.

Dev is a serial entrepreneur who launched Boldmoon Cloud at just 13 years old, running a web hosting service for two years serving businesses during COVID, demonstrating an early and relentless drive to build.

Prior to Markov Studios, Dev co-founded Zenith, a robotics company building AI-assisted hardware workflow tools, and also built Shiro, an AI coding agent that turns prompts into pull requests.

Markov Studios is positioning itself as the Scale AI for robotics, leveraging a human fleet in India capable of capturing thousands of hours of training data per day for next-generation AI models.