DEV Community

Cover image for Meet the 5 Founders Behind Arush Labs — An AI-First Company Built by Students
ArushLabs
ArushLabs

Posted on • Originally published at arushlabs.vercel.app

Meet the 5 Founders Behind Arush Labs — An AI-First Company Built by Students

Meet the 5 Founders Behind Arush Labs

Arush Labs is an AI-first technology company founded by five students from Kanpur — building AI agents, custom AI solutions, SaaS products, websites, and more, in public, with an MVP launch targeted for 20 August 2026.

Here's a proper introduction to the team behind it.

Arush Kumar — Founder & CEO

Arush leads product, engineering, and technical vision at Arush Labs. He's an AI engineer and full-stack developer based in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, building AI-native software and contributing to open source along the way.

🔗 Personal portfolio · LinkedIn · GitHub

Adeel Ahmad — Co-Founder, Product & Strategy

Adeel is a B.Tech Artificial Intelligence student and open-source contributor, with recent work spanning on-device machine learning and backend systems — squeezing models onto phones with no internet, and building async pipelines for agent systems. He's also a HackIITK 2026 participant.

🔗 Personal portfolio · Instagram

Ayushi Shukla — Co-Founder, Growth Strategy & Brand Development

Ayushi drives growth, branding, community, and customer success at Arush Labs. She's a B.Tech Mechanical Engineering student, an open-source contributor (including work on the FreeCAD TechDraw Workbench as a GSSoC 2026 contributor), and holds multiple certifications across AI, cloud, and data.

🔗 Personal portfolio · Instagram

Aniket Gautam — Co-Founder, Software Engineering

Aniket led system architecture for AegisDOM — a zero-trust, deterministic middleware protecting AI browser agents from prompt injection — finishing among the Top 24 Grand Finalists nationwide (Rank 15) at HackIITK 2026, out of 9,000+ participating teams. He's also a Campus Ambassador for Techfest, IIT Bombay.

🔗 Arush Labs founder profile

Abhay Shukla — Co-Founder, Operations & Business Development

Abhay leads operations, brand, and business development at Arush Labs, and was part of the HackIITK 2026 Grand Finalist cohort himself.

🔗 Arush Labs founder profile

Why We're Building This

Most "AI-powered" software today is a thin layer bolted onto a product that doesn't need it. We think that's backwards — we build AI-native from the ground up, and we believe founders and small teams deserve access to the same quality of engineering that used to require a much bigger budget and team.

That's the whole premise of Arush Labs: five people who can move like a much bigger team, because AI is doing the heavy lifting alongside us.

Need AI software, websites, automation or custom business solutions? Contact Arush Labs to build your next product.

Follow our build-in-public journey: Arush Labs on Dev.to · Hashnode · Peerlist

Top comments (0)