Harish Ashok is Co-Founder of Markov Studios (YC 2026), a cutting-edge AI data company sourcing high-quality tasks and data to train the next generation of computer-use AI models, based in San Francisco.

A Chennai-based hardware builder and alumnus of The Knowledge Society (TKS), Harish launched his first venture, Boldmoon Cloud, at just 13 years old, a web hosting service that served businesses during COVID.

Harish is a rare young founder who bridges hardware and AI, driven by a vision to make computer-use AI smarter through better, purpose-built training data.

Before Markov Studios, Harish founded Zenith, a robotics company that built AI-assisted hardware workflow tools including a real-time voice assistant that automated firmware generation, compilation, and debugging for engineers.

Backed by Y Combinator (2026 batch), Markov Studios is at the frontier of the computer-use AI data space, co-founded alongside Dev Mandal, positioning the team to power the next wave of autonomous AI agents.