Kara

Making diamond an engineering material

YC Summer 2026HardwareB2BManufacturingAdvanced Materials

About Kara

We grow high-purity diamond wafers for advanced hardware. Used in data centers, aircraft, spacecraft, RF electronics, power devices, and lasers, our diamond moves heat up to 5× better than copper, helping critical systems run cooler, faster, and more reliably. Diamond has spent centuries as a symbol. We are turning it into infrastructure.

Founders

  • Anuveer Chadha

    Founder

    Founder @ Kara (S26) | Built diamond quantum sensing systems @ LBNL with the Department of War | ML for biologics @ Regeneron | Berkeley Chemical Engineering Dropout

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  • Aarin Jhaveri

    Founder

    Founder & CEO @ Kara (YC S26). 5th-generation diamantaire. Sold $5M+ of natural and lab-grown diamonds across the value chain. UC Berkeley, Economics & Data Science.

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  • Arjun Lakhanpal

    Founder

    Founder @ Kara (YC S26), Prev. AI/ML @ Amazon, Data @ Salesforce. Computer Science, Data Science, and Applied Mathematics @ UC Berkeley.

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