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Chakra Labs

Commercial
medium confidence
www.chakra.dev ↗ · Status: active confirmed · Founded 2024

Chakra Labs runs Dojo, an open/collaborative reinforcement-learning environment hub for computer-use agents, offering deterministic, frame-accurate clones of production software plus human computer-use trajectory datasets, with native support for the Harbor, Verifiers and Verl RL frameworks. It positions itself as bringing frontier-lab-grade CUA training infrastructure to the broader research community.

Key facts
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York, USAreported
Headcount band
11-50reported cite
Total raised
$10.1Mreported cite
Last round
$10.1M (stage unspecified; SEC filing reported 2026-01-26, ~50 investors)reported cite
SOC 2
unknown
What they sell
environmentsconfirmed cite
Open source
yesconfirmed cite
Deployment
managed-hosted (shared platform / request access); native support for Harbor, Verifiers, and Verl RL frameworksreported cite

Scale & velocity

Current headcount
~14reported cite
Headcount growth
unknown
Open roles
unknown
Other locations
unknown
Distributed / remote
unknown

Research depth

Has researchers
yesreported cite
Researcher count
unknown
Backgrounds
Alexander Fung (co-founder), ex-Palantir, Snap/Snapchat, Fin; Computer Science, University of Waterloo (per LinkedIn/search snippets), Nirmal Krishnan (co-founder), Computer Science & ML, Johns Hopkins; prior data/early-stage startup experience (per LinkedIn/search snippets)reported cite
Papers / benchmarks
GLADOS-1, described as 'the first computer-use (CUA) model post-trained using collective, crowd-sourced trajectories' (GitHub repo, Apache-2.0), a released model/repo, not a peer-reviewed paper, 'Computer Use Agents' Part I & II, market map / ecosystem analysis posts (Chakra Labs on X, @chakra_ai), Dojo product launch write-up on chakra.devreported cite

Capital

Total raised
$10.1M (disclosed via SEC filing, reported 2026-01-26)reported cite
Last round
$10.1M (stage unspecified; SEC filing reported 2026-01-26, ~50 investors)reported cite
Investors
unknown
Valuation
unknown
Revenue signals
unknown

Security & compliance

SOC 2
unknown
Other certifications
unknown
Security page
unknown

Product

What they sell
environmentsconfirmed cite
Open source
yesconfirmed cite
License
Mixed: Apache-2.0 (GLADOS-1, harbor, marina, harbor-start-script); MIT (software-agent-sdk, cli-mcp-server); some repos (dojo-spas, verl-tools, servers) have no declared licenseconfirmed cite
Deployment model
managed-hosted (shared platform / request access); native support for Harbor, Verifiers, and Verl RL frameworksreported cite
Maturity
private beta (request access)estimated cite
Notable customers
unknown

Buyer analysis

Best fit: Teams training or evaluating computer-use / GUI agents that need ready-made, deterministic clones of production software environments plus human trajectory data.

How we verified this

Confirmed this is the correct company: Chakra Labs operating Dojo, 'The RL Environment Hub for Computer Use Agents' (matches directory note), not the same-named crypto/Bitcoin-restaking 'Chakra'. Funding ($10.1M, ~50 investors, SEC filing reported by AlleyWatch 2026-01-26) is verified but rests on a single funding-report source with unspecified stage and unnamed investors, so total_raised/last_round kept 'reported' and notable_investors kept empty/unknown. Founders (Alexander Fung, Nirmal Krishnan) and founding year 2024 corroborated by AlleyWatch; officer titles softened as unverified. HQ Brooklyn/NY rests on search snippets (Crunchbase 403). Open-source status and licenses verified directly on GitHub and corrected to reflect a mixed Apache-2.0/MIT/none license picture. No verified customers (only unnamed 'leading research teams' self-claimed), kept empty. No SOC2/security page (security URL 404), unknown. Headcount ~14 / band 11-50 is single-source LinkedIn with an internal 2-10-vs-14 conflict, flagged and kept 'reported'. Main downgrade: published_papers_or_benchmarks from 'confirmed' to 'reported' since the items are a model/repo, X posts, and a product blog rather than formal papers/benchmarks. Overall confidence: medium.

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Sources

  1. trydojo.ai/ · 2026-06-07, Dojo landing page, 'The RL Environment Hub for Computer Use Agents'; Harbor/Verifiers/Verl integration; request access
  2. www.chakra.dev/ · 2026-06-07, Chakra Labs main site, 'Frontier Data Laboratory'; deterministic RL environments, trajectory datasets; contact emails; links to LinkedIn and X
  3. www.chakra.dev/publications/product-launch-dojo · 2026-06-07, Dojo launch (2025-10-31); product description; Nirmal Krishnan co-founder note; no named customers
  4. github.com/chakra-network · 2026-06-07, Chakra Labs GitHub org; created 2024-05-21; repos GLADOS-1 (Apache-2.0), dojo-spas, harbor/marina (Apache-2.0); active pushes to 2026-06-05
  5. www.linkedin.com/company/chakra-labs · 2026-06-07, Public snippet, Data Infrastructure & Analytics; '2-10' size band with 14 total employees noted; founders Fung & Krishnan listed
  6. www.alleywatch.com/2026/01/the-alleywatch-startup-daily-funding-report-1 · 2026-06-07, Reports Chakra Labs $10.1M funding per SEC filing (2026-01-26), ~50 investors; founded 2024 by Alexander Fung & Nirmal Krishnan
  7. x.com/chakra_ai · 2026-06-07, Company X account; Computer Use Agents Part I & II market-map posts
  8. www.crunchbase.com/organization/chakra-labs · 2026-06-07, Listing (HTTP 403 on fetch); referenced via search snippets for Brooklyn/NY HQ and founder data
  9. jobs.ashbyhq.com/chakra-labs · 2026-06-07, Careers page; listings not extractable from public snippet
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