Where does Erik Meike work?

Erik Meike is Founder of Madrone.

Where did Erik Meike go to school?

Erik Meike studied at Harvey Mudd College (Bachelor's degree, Engineering with emphasis in Environmental Analysis); The Nueva School.

Erik Meike

Founder

Founder at Madrone

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedMadrone · YC

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Erik Meike is a hardware engineer who previously worked on wireless power technologies at Apple for iPhone. He has earlier experience in automated PCB design at JITx and autonomous robotics at PRENAV, and studied engineering at Harvey Mudd.

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Founder at Madrone YC X26

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Erik went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Madrone's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Madrone's investors · 12

Agrolimen Ventures Capitalize VCChicago · $100K – $200K checks Climate CapitalMenlo Park · $25K – $250K checks Founder CapitalSilicon Valley · $25K – $100K checks Galaxy VenturesNew York Genesis CapitalDallas Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks MyAsiaVCSeattle PageOne Lab, Inc.Peak XV PartnersBengaluru · $100K – $10M checks Tekedia CapitalLagos · $1K checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Madrone

Akshay TrikhaFounder

Experience

Madrone LabsFoundercurrent2025 — present
Watney Robotics IncFounding Engineer2025
AppleHardware Development Engineer2022 — 2025Cupertino, California, United States
AppleEngineer2021 — 2022Cupertino, California, United States
AppleIntern2020Cupertino, California, United States
AppleIntern2019Cupertino, CA
JITXIntern2018
PRENAV (we're hiring)Intern2017
PRENAV (we're hiring)Intern2016
QuickLogicIntern2015
IntuitSummer Intern2014

Skills & more

Python11Arduino7HTML5CSS4C6C++9Java8MySQL2GIT6PHP1Amazon Web Services (AWS)1Amazon S31

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JavascriptXMLJavaScriptKMLI2CSPIProgrammingAPIsHardware

Languages English

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Erik Meike?: Erik Meike is a hardware engineer who previously worked on wireless power technologies at Apple for iPhone. He has earlier experience in automated PCB design at JITx and autonomous robotics at PRENAV, and studied engineering at Harvey Mudd.
Where does Erik Meike work?: Erik Meike is Founder of Madrone.
What companies did Erik Meike found?: Erik Meike founded Madrone.
Where did Erik Meike go to school?: Erik Meike studied at Harvey Mudd College (Bachelor's degree, Engineering with emphasis in Environmental Analysis); The Nueva School.