# Markov

[Markov on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/markov)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://www.markovstudios.com/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/markov)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/markov-artificial-intelligence/)
- [X](https://x.com/markov_labs)

## About

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## YC company profile

Expert computer-use data for frontier AI labs

Markov builds expert computer-use datasets for frontier AI labs. Our datasets include screen recordings + mouse/keyboard actions of professionals using CAD, design and enterprise software.

We work with the top AI labs and we’ve gotten more than 350k downloads on HuggingFace. Our long-term goal is to be the full stack platform for computer-use AI, starting with data and then the infrastructure to train and deploy computer-use models.

Dev and Harish are technical co-founders. Dev studied aerospace engineering at IIT Madras and was the youngest team member at Sarvam - India’s top AI lab. Harish is an Emergent Ventures grantee and his prior robotics work was featured in top national publications.

- **YC batch:** Summer 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 2
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** B2B
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Reinforcement Learning, Data Labeling, Data Engineering
- **YC partner:** Harshita Arora

## Founders

### Dev Mandal — Founder/CEO

Co-Founder & CEO at Markov. Prev at Sarvam, Aerospace engineering at IIT Madras

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dev-mandal-iitm/) · [X](https://x.com/DevvMandal)

### Harish Ashok — Founder/CTO

Co-Founder at Markov. Previously founded Zenith, a robotics company building AI-assisted hardware workflow tools.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harish-ashok) · [X](https://x.com/harishashok)

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

## Current staff

- [Dev Mandal](https://hacklab.so/dev-mandal) — Founder/CEO (Present)
- [Harish Ashok](https://hacklab.so/harish-ashok) — Founder/CTO (Present)