hardware intelligence
AI tools for the chips your AI runs on
YC Summer 2026Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsHardwareEnterprise SoftwareSemiconductors
Founder
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.