Sekhar Chandra

Hi, I’m Sekhar.

I build tasteful
0 to 1 AI products.

2Viral Products

1M+People Reached

ExascaleHPC + AI Co-design

Founder. Builder. Operator.

Over 20 years, I’ve worked across the frontier technology lifecycle - from co-designing petascale and exascale HPC/AI systems to founding consumer AI companies. I’ve built products and led teams that achieved viral growth and reached 1M+ people. I also spent a chapter in corporate venture capital, shaping partnerships, M&A, and strategy.

  1. Venture Capital & StrategyCorporate VC · M&A diligence · Fundraising
  2. Agentic layerAI Addresses · Voice agents · Commerce
  3. AppsConsumer AI · Viral products
  4. InfrastructureExascale · AI systems · Co-design

Founder2026

Giga Maps AI Addresses

I’m building a new primitive for the $1T+ agentic economy: AI Addresses. It makes every place discoverable, identifiable, and commerce-ready for people, businesses, and AI agents.

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Co-founder2023

Spark AI Friends for Kids

Co-founded with Shiva Jaini, one of the creators of YouTube Kids. Spark uses AI friends to turn passive screentime into conversation, imagination, storytelling, and learning through play. It grew organically to 1,000+ customers and 2M+ voice experiences for kids in its first year.

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Individual Contributor2007–2018

Co-design HPC & AI Systems

At Purdue and Intel, I worked across software, hardware, workloads, and data centers. That work ranged from large-scale scientific simulation to co-designing next-generation supercomputers optimized for performance, power, and reliability.

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  • Petascale HPCScaling scientific simulations · 100K+ nodes · NSF
  • Exascale Co-designPerformance · Power · Reliability · Intel · DOE/DOD
  • AI SystemsSoftware · Hardware · Workloads
I learned to scale systems. Then products. Then teams.
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