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Lab0

Automated forward-deployed engineers (AI FDEs)

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveB2BSaaSB2BEnterpriseEnterprise Software

What they do

Problem

Enterprise software and AI system rollouts take months of costly manual integration, configuration, and tuning by system integrators and forward-deployed engineers.

Solution

Lab0 builds agentic AI forward-deployed engineers that automate implementation work to compress deployments from months to weeks.

Who it's for

Enterprise organizations implementing ERP or AI systems and the teams responsible for deploying and integrating them.

Founders

Lakshya Gupta
Founder

Building agents to deploy agents at Lab0.ai. Always down to talk about model quirks. Previously was a founding engineer at Emergent (YC S24) - scaled it from 0 to $70M ARR - leading integrations, evals and deployments. Studied Computer Science at IIT Bombay. More brags - Was All India Rank 12 in JEE Advanced 2020 and won a Bronze medal for India at the Asian Physics Olympiad 2019 held in Australia.

Onkar Borade
Founder

Lab0 | IITB CSE | Rebuilding the services industry through a Productized Approach

Sujay Srivastava
Founder

Striving towards 0-day Enterprise software Implementation with Lab0 (YC P26) IIT Madras Quantum Computing grad

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