Arush Labs started the way a lot of real companies do — not with a perfectly polished pitch deck, but with a small group of people who kept ending up in the same conversations about AI, software, and what they wanted to build, and eventually decided to stop treating it as a side project.
Arush Labs was founded by five students from Kanpur, each with a genuinely different skill set, who came together to build an AI-first technology company from the ground up. This post is a proper introduction to who they are, individually — because a company is never really an abstract brand, it's the people actually doing the work.
Arush is the founder steering the technical direction of Arush Labs — AI engineering, full-stack development, and building AI-native software from the ground up. He's based in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and has been building Arush Labs in public, alongside contributing to open source projects.
His work spans the technical backbone of what Arush Labs delivers to clients — from AI agent architecture to the actual product engineering that turns an idea into something shipped and working.
👉 See Arush's personal portfolio · Arush Labs founder profile
Ayushi leads product growth, branding, business strategy, community, and customer success at Arush Labs. She's a B.Tech Mechanical Engineering student at Vision Institute of Technology, Kanpur (AKTU), and brings a genuinely wide range to the team — from open source contributions (including work on the FreeCAD TechDraw Workbench as a GSSoC 2026 contributor) to AI literacy, cloud certifications, and content strategy.
She's also a HackIITK 2026 participant and holds multiple certifications spanning AI, cloud, and data — the kind of cross-functional range that keeps a small founding team from needing to hire out every specialist role too early.
👉 See Ayushi's personal portfolio · Arush Labs founder profile
Adeel rounds out the team's technical and problem-solving depth, with an active presence across LinkedIn, GitHub, and Instagram where he shares his work and progress in AI, ML, data, and cybersecurity — areas he's also actively pursuing internship opportunities in.
👉 See Adeel's personal portfolio · Arush Labs founder profile
Aniket focuses on building secure systems, and was a participant at HackIITK 2026 — reflecting the team's broader interest in cybersecurity as a core part of what Arush Labs offers alongside AI and software development.
👉 See Aniket's Arush Labs founder profile
Abhay leads much of the brand-facing side of Arush Labs, and was also a HackIITK 2026 Grand Finalist — one of several team members who've represented Arush Labs at IIT Kanpur's flagship hackathon.
👉 See Abhay's personal portfolio · Arush Labs founder profile
When a client works with Arush Labs, they're not working with a faceless agency — they're working with five specific people who each bring a different piece of what it takes to actually ship AI-first products: engineering, growth, technical depth, security, and brand. That's a deliberate structure, not an accident — it's what lets a young, lean team take on work that would normally require a much bigger agency.
If you want to know exactly who's building your product before you commit — that's the whole point of this post. Five founders, real portfolios, real work you can look at before you ever get on a call.
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Q1. Who founded Arush Labs? Arush Labs was founded by five students from Kanpur — Arush Kumar, Ayushi Shukla, Adeel Ahmad, Aniket Gautam, and Abhay Shukla.
Q2. What does each founder specialize in? Arush Kumar leads AI engineering and full-stack development. Ayushi Shukla leads growth, branding, and community. Adeel Ahmad and Aniket Gautam focus on technical and security-oriented work. Abhay Shukla leads brand-facing work.
Q3. Where can I see the founders' individual work? Each founder has their own personal portfolio, linked directly in this post and on the Arush Labs founders page.
Q4. Is Arush Labs a student-run company? Yes — the founding team is made up of students from Kanpur actively building Arush Labs alongside their studies and individual projects.
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