hardware intelligence
New accelerator entry · 2026-07-14 · the record
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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.
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.
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Against the 209 companies on file from Summer 2026. Median team 2, largest 30.
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| Frontier Computing | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Hard Tech, Hardware | 2026-08-31 |
| Ethos Space Resources | Summer 2026 | Hard Tech, Exascale Computing, Energy | 2026-08-23 |
| Spectre Intelligence | Summer 2026 | Biotech, Investing, Trading | 2026-08-22 |
| Edgerun | Summer 2026 | Robotics, Defense | 2026-08-21 |
| Allia Health | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Mental Health | 2026-08-19 |
| hardware intelligence (this page) | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Hardware | 2026-07-14 |
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