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Hardware Intelligence

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.

Hardware Intelligence is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Hardware, Semiconductors, Chip Design, and AI.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyHardwareSemiconductorsChip DesignAIDeveloper ToolsEDAAgentic

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Hardware Intelligence Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Twitter
Twitter
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Product
Product
 YCombinator
YCombinator

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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