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Kailash Labs
YC F26Bengaluru, IN · Founded 2026 · 2 employees · 1 known investors
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Kailash Labs builds compact, task-specific video reasoning models by distilling frontier vision-language models and post-training small open models for individual customer objectives, including on-premise deployment. Its first product, Marlin, is a 2B-parameter open-weights video VLM aimed at tasks such as dense captioning and temporal grounding for organizations processing large volumes of video.
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (F26)
Kailash Labs was founded in 2026 by Shubham Sharma.
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Shubham SharmaFounder/CEOHe previously worked as a visiting researcher at KAIST on robot learning and long-term memory for decision-making agents, conducted offline reinforcement learning research at Tsinghua that was published at NeurIPS, and holds an Aerospace Engineering degree from IIT Bombay.
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- What does Kailash Labs do?
- Kailash Labs builds compact, task-specific video reasoning models by distilling frontier vision-language models and post-training small open models for individual customer objectives, including on-premise deployment. Its first product, Marlin, is a 2B-parameter open-weights video VLM aimed at tasks such as dense captioning and temporal grounding for organizations processing large volumes of video.
- Who founded Kailash Labs?
- Kailash Labs was founded by Shubham Sharma in 2026.
- Who are Kailash Labs's investors?
- Kailash Labs's investors include Y Combinator.
- Where is Kailash Labs headquartered?
- Kailash Labs is headquartered in Bengaluru, IN.