Company
Optara Labs is building the real-world intelligence layer for AI—from cleaner surroundings and safer everyday spaces to supporting national infrastructure development, protecting critical assets, strengthening border safety and helping communities thrive.
Our conviction
The physical world keeps changing. The systems we depend on should help us understand those changes, remember their context and decide where attention is needed.
We founded Optara to connect sensing, intelligence and memory—so people and AI agents can work with a richer understanding of the world around them.
Our ambition
Our ambition begins with cleaner surroundings and safer communities. It extends to the systems nations depend on: infrastructure development, critical asset protection and border safety.
We are building toward a shared intelligence layer that helps people and AI agents understand changing conditions and make better-informed decisions—from a street or facility to infrastructure networks and national assets.
Founders
Co-founder
More than a decade of experience in data science and machine learning, including roles at Shopify, Nordstrom, Target and Mu Sigma. An electronics and communication engineering background, with a master’s in data science from the University of Minnesota.
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Co-founder
Former Data Science & Engineering Manager at Shopify and founder of Pike Place AI. His background includes Carnegie Mellon University and BITS Pilani.
View LinkedIn profile ↗How we build
Build around decisions that matter to people and the teams responsible for their environments.
Put systems in the field. Test the hardware, the intelligence and the assumptions behind them.
Take ownership, test ideas early and turn setbacks into the next improvement.
Keep evidence and human judgment central. Stay politically neutral and operate within the laws of the places we serve.
Build with Optara
Explore a pilot, a collaboration or a future role. Available 24/7 across India and the USA.
