Olam Labs
YC S26San Francisco, US · Founded 2026 · 2 employees · 1 known investors
Olam Labs builds multiplayer game environments — such as no-limit Texas hold'em, Risk-style conquest, Codenames-style word deduction, and market simulations — to study how AI agents negotiate, socialize, and compete alongside humans. It also runs large-scale internal simulations with hundreds of concurrent agents and publishes notable research runs.
Also known as Gud Labs
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareGamingArtificial IntelligenceReinforcement LearningData EngineeringUnited States of AmericaAmerica / Canada
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S26)
Olam Labs was founded in 2026 by Om Buddhdev and shreshth sharma.
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Om Buddhdevin𝕏Co-Founder & CEOOm Buddhdev was a competitive Valorant player before joining AI Dungeon as a Product and Staff Engineer focused on AI gaming. He co-founded Olam Labs with Shreshth to build simulated environments for evaluating AI agents.
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shreshth sharmain𝕏Co-Founder / CTOShreshth is completing a CS and business degree at University of Waterloo and has experience in reinforcement learning systems and data science from a previous role at RBC. He co-founded Olam Labs, which builds simulated environments for AI evaluation.
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The YC application· Summer 2026 batch
Alumni Q&A
- How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
- The founders, Om and Shreshth, met in middle school as the two students in their grade's gifted program and first collaborated on a school snacks and candy store that donated its profits to charity. Over the 2025 Christmas holiday, Om built a multi-agent simulated environment in which agents ran competing companies in markets and showed it to Shreshth, who has a background in data and reinforcement learning; they then discussed scaling multi-agent environments through frameworks, infrastructure APIs, and interactive games to generate data and evaluations. They founded the company to address what they see as a shortage of AI evaluations for qualitative behaviors, which they believe multi-agent environments are suited to solve.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Olam Labs do?
- Olam Labs builds multiplayer game environments — such as no-limit Texas hold'em, Risk-style conquest, Codenames-style word deduction, and market simulations — to study how AI agents negotiate, socialize, and compete alongside humans. It also runs large-scale internal simulations with hundreds of concurrent agents and publishes notable research runs.
- Who founded Olam Labs?
- Olam Labs was founded by Om Buddhdev, shreshth sharma in 2026.
- Who are Olam Labs's investors?
- Olam Labs's investors include Y Combinator.
- Where is Olam Labs headquartered?
- Olam Labs is headquartered in San Francisco, US.