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Akshay Trikha

Akshay Trikha

Founder at Madrone (YC P26)

FounderMadrone logoMadrone· Spring 2026🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
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2025Founder· Madrone
Founder · since 2025
Company
Madrone
Role
Founder
current
Stage
—
no public source
Raised
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no public source
Based
Mountain View, California, United States
current
Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
Source: LinkedIn work history
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Madrone

Hyper-efficient coolers for data centers

Spring 2026

Experience

Career

  • Madrone logo

    Madrone

    Founder

    Founder · Mountain View, California, United States · 2025 – Present

    2025
  • QuantumScape logo

    QuantumScape

    ML Engineer, Office of the CTO · San Jose, California, United States · 2021 – 2025

    2021
  • UC Berkeley College of Engineering logo

    UC Berkeley College of Engineering

    Graduate Student Researcher · Berkeley, California, United States · 2024 – 2025

    2024
  • Sandia National Laboratories logo

    Sandia National Laboratories

    Researcher · 2020 – 2021

    2020
  • AMISTAD Lab logo

    AMISTAD Lab

    Researcher · Harvey Mudd College · 2019

    2019

Bio

Founder/CEO at Madrone, where I'm making data center cooling more efficient. Prev. trained models with millions of inferences at QuantumScape, and to predict material properties at Berkeley.