Athreya Anand
FounderFounder at hardware intelligence
San Francisco, California, United States
Foundedhardware intelligence Β· YC
About
Athreya Anand is co-founder and CEO of Hardware Intelligence. He previously served as a tech lead at Google working on AI systems, and has experience at AWS Inferentia and Tesla. He holds a Master's degree in Machine Learning and AI from Georgia Tech.
Athreya Anand @athreyaanand
Weβre proud to launch @hwintelligence (YC S26): AI tools for the chips your AI runs on. Our first product is Wave, a terminal-native waveform debugger with a verification agent built-in. And itβs just the start. If you design or verify chipsβASICs or FPGAsβweβd love to talk! https://t.co/2hUO3YCyXN
Jul 28, 2026 Β· β₯ 26 Β· β 3
Athreya Anand @athreyaanand
Super excited to announce that Rishov (@ArkaneMoose) and I are building hardware intelligence (@hwintelligence ) at @ycombinator! π Leaving Google and a PhD, we wanted to build something big. We found it in something small: chips. Right now, the industry is bolting AI onto https://t.co/xmEMnFlEcW
Jul 16, 2026 Β· β₯ 18 Β· β 3
Athreya Anand @athreyaanand
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Jul 16, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Founder at hardware intelligenceYC S26
Intro paths
Athreya went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran hardware intelligence's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Athreya can intro founders to hardware intelligence's investors below.
hardware intelligence's investors Β· 1
Experience
- hardware intelligence (YC S26)Co-Founder & CEOcurrent2026 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2022 β 2026New York, New York, United States
- CedarSoftware Engineer2021 β 2022New York, New York, United States
- EsriData Science Intern2020Redlands, California, United States
- AmazonSoftware Engineering Intern2019Cupertino. CA
- Boingo WirelessSoftware Engineering Intern2018Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- TRACE StudiosFounder - Lead Developer2014 β 2018
- CalicomSoftware Engineering Intern2016Santa Clara
- TeslaSoftware Engineering Intern201545500 Fremont Boulevard
Education
- Y Combinator2026
- Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, AI & Machine Learning (CS)2020 β 2021
- Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science2017 β 2020
Skills & more
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JavaSwiftJavaScriptXcodeC++HTMLCPythonApple DeveloperStock TradingTrack and FieldSprintsLanguages English Β· Spanish Β· Tamil
- Deep Learning Specialization β DeepLearning.AI
- Sequence Models β DeepLearning.AI
- Convolutional Neural Networks β DeepLearning.AI
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects β DeepLearning.AI
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization β DeepLearning.AI
- Python for Data Science and AI β IBM
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning β DeepLearning.AI
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