Raj Patel is Co-Founder at Human Archive, a Y Combinator W26 robotics data lab providing multimodal datasets to frontier robotics labs and foundation model companies. The company works with leading humanoid robotics companies to accelerate the development of embodied intelligence.

Raj attended UC Berkeley before dropping out to found Human Archive with his co-founders. He previously worked as a farmer, selling mangoes and planting trees before entering the robotics data space.

The team moved to Asia to build the world's largest annotated multimodal dataset for robotics. Human Archive designs and deploys custom hardware across residential and manufacturing environments to collect real-world data.

Human Archive is part of Y Combinator Winter 2026 and raised $500K in convertible note funding. The company operates with a lean team of 4 employees based in San Francisco with operations in India.

Human Archive is building infrastructure to reshape physical labor markets by providing high-fidelity datasets that unlock step-function gains in robotics model capability. The company believes it is at a historic inflection point to permanently redefine human labor through capable humanoid deployment.