aid: hardware-intelligence
name: Hardware Intelligence
description: >-
  Hardware Intelligence is a Y Combinator (Summer 2026) startup based in San
  Francisco building an end-to-end, agent-native toolchain for chip design.
  Founded in 2026 by Athreya Anand, the company applies agentic AI and ultrafast
  feedback loops to the semiconductor design and verification workflow. Its first
  product, Wave, is a terminal-native waveform debugger with a verification agent
  built in, aimed at accelerating hardware debugging and design iteration. At the
  time of profiling the company is pre-launch with early-access pilots and a
  waitlist; it publishes no public API, developer documentation, SDKs, or
  OpenAPI, so this API Evangelist profile captures company identity only and
  awaits a developer surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hardware-intelligence/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://hardwareintelligence.ai/og-image.png
tags:
- Company
- Hardware
- Semiconductors
- Chip Design
- AI
- Developer Tools
- EDA
- Agentic
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hardware-intelligence-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://hardwareintelligence.ai/
- type: Product
  name: Wave
  url: https://hardwareintelligence.ai/wave/
- type: YCombinator
  url: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hardware-intelligence
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/hwintelligence
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hardwareintelligence/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence