Akshay is a co-founder and CEO of Pocket, an AI hardware company building a voice recorder that captures and summarizes real-world conversations. Akshay's Twitter Score is 39 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #24,288 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Akshay co-founded Pocket alongside Gabriel Dymowski in late 2024. The company, operated under Open Vision Engineering, Inc., a Delaware corporation, combines hardware and software to record and distill spoken conversations. Pocket is a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company and announced an $11 million funding round from Accel, Y Combinator, and ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski, per the company's announcement on June 29, 2026. Previously, Akshay was a founding member at Omi.
Akshay also founded Narisetti Grants, a rolling microgrant program supporting individual builders working in hardware and robotics. Akshay's account has published 7,135 posts and has been mentioned by 16 accounts a total of 17 times.
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