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Agentic chip design with ultrafast feedback loops

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Athreya Anand
Athreya Anand
Founder
Co-founder & CEO of Hardware Intelligence (hi). Athreya was a tech lead at Google where he led AI efforts across orgs from agentic workflow management tools to prediction models for Google Ventures. He has a Master's from Georgia Tech in Machine Learning and A.I., with technical expertise in agentic tools and chip design through his time at Google, AWS Inferentia, and Tesla.
Rishov Sarkar
Rishov Sarkar
Founder
Founder at hardware intelligence (YC S26). PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, where he won the 2022 ECE Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year award. Previously developed simulators for AMD's AI Engine accelerator and worked on LLVM-based compilation flows at Siemens EDA. MS and BS in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech.
hardware intelligence
Founded:2026
Batch:Summer 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Jon Xu