Arvin Singh
Arvin Singh is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Aviern, an uncrewed cargo aircraft startup in Y Combinator’s Fall 2026 batch. A University of California, Los Angeles alumnus, he led subteams in the university’s Design Build Fly club.
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Early Years: UCLA and Aircraft Design
Arvin Singh is an alumnus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he says he taught aircraft engineering and led subteams within the Design Build Fly at UCLA club. He previously worked at Cepheid.[1]
He also says he has made YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry videos of home-built engineering projects for several years.[1]
The company describes him as having built airplanes for ten years and won international aircraft design competitions.[2]
2026Co-founding Aviern
He co-founded AviernAviernAviern is a U.S. company developing unmanned cargo aircraft for commercial air freight and defense logistics.Open the full entry, a developer of uncrewed cargo aircraft, with Kush AgarwalKush AgarwalKush Agarwal is the co-founder and chief executive of Aviern, an uncrewed cargo aircraft startup in Y Combinator’s Fall 2026 batch. He studied aerospace engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was president of the student drone club UAS@UCLA.Open the full entry; Singh is chief technology officer and Agarwal chief executive.[3]
Aviern joined Y Combinator’s Fall 2026 batch (F26).[1]