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Erik Meike

Founder

Founder at Madrone

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedMadrone · YC

About

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 MadroneYC X26

Intro paths

YC

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

GP

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Madrone's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Erik can intro founders to Madrone's investors below.

Madrone's investors · 2

Greylock PartnersY Combinator

Co-founders at Madrone

ATAkshay Trikha
Akshay TrikhaFounder

Experience

  1. Madrone LabsFoundercurrent2025 — present
  2. Watney Robotics IncFounding Engineer2025
  3. AppleHardware Development Engineer2022 — 2025Cupertino, California, United States
  4. AppleEngineer2021 — 2022Cupertino, California, United States
  5. AppleIntern2020Cupertino, California, United States
  6. AppleIntern2019Cupertino, CA
  7. JITXIntern2018
  8. PRENAV (we're hiring)Intern2017
  9. PRENAV (we're hiring)Intern2016
  10. QuickLogicIntern2015
  11. IntuitSummer Intern2014

Education

  1. Harvey Mudd CollegeBachelor's degree, Engineering with emphasis in Environmental Analysis2017 — 2021
  2. The Nueva School2013 — 2017

Skills & more

Python11Arduino7HTML5CSS4C6C++9Java8MySQL2GIT6PHP1Amazon Web Services (AWS)1Amazon S31
+9 moreJavascriptXMLJavaScriptKMLI2CSPIProgrammingAPIsHardware

Languages English

From Erik's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Harvey Mudd College16

Erik StraserPartner at ClearSkyJon SobergCEO and Managing Partner at MS&AD VenturesBen NahirPartner at Elevate CapitalShahril IbrahimPartner at The Hive Southeast AsiaTom HsiehPartner, Capital at FuturesightTom Preston-WernerCofounder & General Partner at Preston-Werner Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at Madrone Labs1

Akshay TrikhaFounder at Madrone

Also worked at Apple294

Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockJim BreyerFounder & CEO of Breyer CapitalSteve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesDamir BecirovicInvestor at Index VenturesNicolas MetzkeInvestor at DaphniTed KummertVenture partner at Madrona focused on enterprise infrastructure, data, and intelligent applications

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Also worked at QuickLogic1

Bruce GrahamPartner at Pegasus Tech Ventures

Also worked at Intuit68

Nate WangVP of Investments at Plum Alley InvestmentsDavid HahnCISO Operating Partner at Ballistic VenturesGregory BillingtonResearch at Transform Capital ManagementArjun AroraInvestor at Streamlined VenturesAdam CoccariManaging Director at HubSpot VenturesTekedra MawakanaCo-CEO, Waymo at Operator Collective

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