Aadi Nashikkar is Co-Founder at Phinity Labs, an applied research lab building foundational AI infrastructure for autonomous chip design, enabling LLMs to design, verify, and tape out chips from prompt to silicon.

Aadi studied Computer Science at Stanford University, where he took courses in Deep Reinforcement Learning, NLP, and Machine Learning, and founded All in AI in high school to teach underrepresented students how to code.

A National Merit Scholarship winner and Knowledge Bowl National Champion, Aadi did AI research for Verizon in high school and has been a serial founder since his Stanford years, demonstrating a rare blend of technical depth and entrepreneurial drive.

Prior to Phinity, Aadi co-founded Kopia (YC W23) as CTO, building AI virtual try-on technology for clothing brands, and later founded Leda and served as a Senior Data Scientist at CaaStle.

Phinity has raised $5.2M in seed funding led by Uncork Capital, with backing from Moxxie, Pear VC, and angel investors including Jeff Dean, and has already reached 8-figures in annualized run rate while working with leading foundation model labs.