# Arga Labs

[Arga Labs on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/arga-labs)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://www.argalabs.com/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/arga-labs)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arga-labs)
- [X](https://x.com/argalabs)

## About

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## YC company profile

Real-world sandboxes to test and train AI agents

We build environments to test your app and agents against the real world.

Deploy your code/agent into a sandbox that runs against replicas of external services (Stripe, Slack, Google Drive, etc.). Twins support the same APIs, MCP tool calls & SDKs as the real software, and you can spin up thousands of instances in parallel and seed them using natural language. Run real workflows, surface edge cases, and observe how your code/agents actually behave before hitting production.

- **YC batch:** Spring 2026
- **Founded:** 2025
- **Team size:** 5
- **Location:** Vancouver, Canada
- **Country:** CA
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** B2B
- **Stage:** Early
- **YC partner:** Pete Koomen

## Founders

### Phillip Li — Founder/CEO

Co-founder & CEO @ Arga Labs.

Built an internal dev tool to simplify making changes to Amazon.com - saves 10+ recurring weeks / year of SDE time, and prevented VP escalations due to bug issues. 

Before that, I was a fencer on the Canadian Junior National Team and researched neuroscience at UBC

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-li-a28a84217/) · [X](https://x.com/PhillipLii)

### Akira Tong — Founder/CTO

Co-founder, CTO @ Arga Labs

Prev. SDE @ Stripe, quant @ GS
Skipped high school, graduated @ 19
Pro player for Identity V, quit because I had to finish my finals :(

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akira-tong) · [X](https://x.com/akkkkiira)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/arga-labs) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Akira Tong](https://hacklab.so/akira-tong) — Founder/CTO (Present)
- [Phillip Li](https://hacklab.so/phillip-li) — Founder/CEO (Present)