About
Akshay Narisetti is co-founder and CEO of Pocket (YC W26). He previously developed open-source AI note-taking hardware and shipped multiple hardware and AI products.
Founder at PocketYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Akshay went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tyler Bosmeny, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Pocket's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Akshay can intro founders to Pocket's investors below.
Pocket's investors · 5
Co-founders at Pocket
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Gabriel DymowskiFounder
Experience
- Pocket (YC W26)Chief Executive Officercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- The ResidencyAI Hardware Resident2024San Francisco Bay Area
- ODFFounder Fellow2024San Francisco Bay Area
- OmiFounding Member2024
- QuestbookSoftware Engineer2023 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- BharatXSoftware Development Engineer2022 — 2023Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- CapitsignSoftware Development Engineer2022
- GoogleSummer of Code Developer2022
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.Software Engineer2022
- RigBetel Labs®ROS Software Developer2021
- RigBetel Labs®ROS Software Developer2021
- RigBetel Labs®Open Source Developer2021
- UdemyInstructor2020 — 2021India
- IVARAChief education officer2020Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Skills & more
Programming and Development58Machine Learning3Robotics80Startup DevelopmentRobotic Process Automation (RPA)52AWS CloudFormationObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)1MATLAB5c7C++1Android DevelopmentData Structures
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KotlinPython (Programming Language)Research and Development (R&D)GitLinuxArduinoXMLHTMLDronesInternet of Things (IoT)Algorithm DesignFeedback Control SystemsLanguages English · Hindi · Telugu
- Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Akshay Narisetti?
- Akshay Narisetti is co-founder and CEO of Pocket (YC W26). He previously developed open-source AI note-taking hardware and shipped multiple hardware and AI products.
- Where does Akshay Narisetti work?
- Akshay Narisetti is Founder of Pocket.
- What companies did Akshay Narisetti found?
- Akshay Narisetti founded Pocket.
- Where did Akshay Narisetti go to school?
- Akshay Narisetti studied at Y Combinator (YC (W26)); Georgia Institute of Technology (Master's degree, Computer Science); SRM IST Chennai (Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science).
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