Hardware & IoT

Kara

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Kara is building diamond semiconductors.

We begin with growing ultra-high purity diamond wafers for advanced hardware. Used in data centers, spacecrafts, RF systems, and quantum hardware, 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.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Aarin Jhaveri

Founder/CEO

CEO @ Kara. 5th-generation diamond manufacturer. Sold millions worth of natural and lab-grown diamonds across the value chain. UC Berkeley Economics and Data Science. Industrializing diamond for the compute age.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Anuveer Chadha

Founder

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

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2026 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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