About Arga Labs
Arga Labs provides isolated sandbox environments equipped with API twins of third-party services, enabling developers and organizations to safely test and train AI agents without risking their production systems. By offering a controlled testing ground that mirrors real-world APIs, the company allows teams to experiment with AI implementations, validate workflows, and refine agent behavior in a risk-free setting. This approach addresses a critical need in AI development, where testing in live environments can introduce costly errors or security vulnerabilities.
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Pre-seed
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Phillip Li
Co-founder & CEO @ Arga Labs. Built an internal dev tool @ Amazon to automate complex engineering workflows, resulted in 10+ recurring weeks/year of engineer hours saved across multiple teams, and prevented VP escalations due to bug issues. Before that, I was a fencer on the Canadian Junior National Team and researched cognitive systems at UBC
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Akira Tong
Co-founder, CTO @ Arga Labs Prev. SDE @ Stripe, quant @ GS Skipped high school, graduated @ 19 Pro player for Identity V, quit because I had to finish my finals :(
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No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.