Erik Meike is Co-Founder and CEO of Madrone, a YC-backed hardware startup building hyper-efficient modular cooling systems for AI data centers.

Erik spent 4 years at Apple designing power and thermal systems for the iPhone, and previously built ML models to predict material properties at UC Berkeley.

Erik brings a rare combination of deep hardware engineering and applied machine learning expertise, spanning thermal systems, power electronics, and data-driven optimization.

At Madrone, Erik leads end-to-end system design covering electronics, heat exchangers, and software, all developed in-house to maximize cooling performance.

Madrone's dew-point cooling technology uses 30% less power and water than competitors in Texas, and its efficiency gains translate to an estimated $78 million in GPU revenue savings per 100 MW per year.