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Nand Vinchhi

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Founder at Axal

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedAxal · YC

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Nand Vinchhi is co-founder and CTO of Axal. He previously worked as an engineer at Airchat and conducted research at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Founder at AxalYC W25

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Nand went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Axal's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Experience

  1. AxalCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, CA
  2. UptycsEngineer2024Waltham, MA
  3. Amazon LeoEngineer2023 — 2024College Park, Maryland, United States
  4. AirchatEngineer2023Los Angeles, CA
  5. MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund ProgramParticipant2021 — 2023
  6. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyResearcher2021Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Skills & more

Rust (Programming Language)1OCaml1Go (Programming Language)1C (Programming Language)React NativeMobile Application DevelopmentCesiumJavaPython (Programming Language)4TypeScriptiOS Development1Swift (Programming Language)
+12 moreReact.jsNext.jsAmazon Web Services (AWS)SQLSupabasegRPCFastAPIMachine LearningJavaScriptNode.jsJulia (Programming Language)Git

Languages English · Hindi

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Who is Nand Vinchhi?
Nand Vinchhi is co-founder and CTO of Axal. He previously worked as an engineer at Airchat and conducted research at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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Nand Vinchhi is Founder of Axal.
What companies did Nand Vinchhi found?
Nand Vinchhi founded Axal.
Where did Nand Vinchhi go to school?
Nand Vinchhi studied at Y Combinator (W25); University of Maryland (Computer Science).

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