2x founder

Athreya Anand

CEO @ hardware intelligence (YC S26)

Co-founder

hardware intelligence· Summer 2026 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2026Co-founder· hardware intelligence (YC S26)

Founder · since 2014

Company

hardware intelligence (YC S26)

Role

Co-Founder & CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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hardware intelligence

AI tools for the chips your AI runs on

Summer 2026

Experience

Career

hardware intelligence (YC S26)
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2026 – Present
2026
Google
Software Engineer · New York, New York, United States · 2022 – 2026
2022
Cedar
Software Engineer · New York, New York, United States · 2021 – 2022
2021
Esri
Data Science Intern · Redlands, California, United States · 2020
2020
Amazon
Software Engineering Intern · Cupertino. CA · 2019
2019
Boingo Wireless
Software Engineering Intern · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · 2018
2018
TRACE Studios
Founder
Founder - Lead Developer · 2014 – 2018
2014
Calicom
Software Engineering Intern · Santa Clara · 2016
2016
Tesla
Software Engineering Intern · 45500 Fremont Boulevard · 2015
2015

Bio

Co-founder & CEO of Hardware Intelligence (hi). Athreya was a tech lead at Google where he led AI efforts across orgs from agentic workflow management tools to prediction models for Google Ventures. He has a Master's from Georgia Tech in Machine Learning and A.I., with technical expertise in agentic tools and chip design through his time at Google, AWS Inferentia, and Tesla.