# Enact

[Enact on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/enact)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://enact.company/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/enact)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/enact-company/?viewAsMember=true)
- [X](https://x.com/enact_labs)

## About

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## YC company profile

Real-world RL environments for robotics models

Enact creates the physical environments to benchmark and hill climb robotics models on high-value tasks. We find where robots fail, and fix them with our in-house training loop.

- **YC batch:** Summer 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 2
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** Industrials
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, AI
- **YC partner:** Jon Xu

## Founders

### James Stevens — Founder/CEO

Founder & CEO @ Enact

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-stevens-440362200) · [X](https://x.com/jamesw_stevens)

### Govind Chada — Founder/CTO

Founder at Enact. Previously: Robotics research in Chelsea Finn’s IRIS Lab at Stanford AI Lab, Meta Reality Labs.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/govind-chada) · [X](https://x.com/govindchada)

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

## Current staff

- [Govind Chada](https://hacklab.so/govind-chada) — Founder/CTO (Present)
- [James Stevens](https://hacklab.so/james-stevens) — Founder/CEO (Present)