Daksh Selected for Claude for Startups.
Published August 11, 2026
Daksh Bathla, founder of Navital Labs, has been selected for Anthropic’s Claude for Startups program in August 2026.
What it is
Claude for Startups is Anthropic’s program for early-stage companies building with Claude. Accepted founders receive API credits, technical guidance on working with the models, and access to a community of teams shipping the same kind of product.
Why it matters
Navital Labs is one person. The limit on what ships isn’t the idea list, it’s the hours, and every product decision competes with every other one for the same afternoon.
Claude is part of how the code gets written here: drafting implementations, reviewing diffs before they ship, working through unfamiliar APIs, and doing the refactors that are easy to postpone when you are the only person who would notice.
The credits mean that leverage stops being metered, so it goes into the unglamorous work too, the tests, the migrations, the cleanup, instead of being saved for the parts that feel worth the spend.
Daksh’s role
Daksh founded Navital Labs while studying computer applications. He designs, builds, and ships every product end to end, with no handoff between the person who understands the problem and the person who writes the fix.