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hardware intelligence launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

AI tools for the chips your AI runs on

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

hardwareintelligence.ai ↗

See their funding details ↗

hardware intelligence on the record

What they shipped

  • Its own site describes it as: "AI tools for the chips your AI runs on. Say hi to the future of chip design." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Athreya Anand, Founder/CEO: 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. (source)
  • Rishov Sarkar, Founder/CTO: 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. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch hardware intelligence

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Dev Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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