Akshay Akula on his full-time role as Hacker in Residence at NQB8, the venture studio that builds four or more ambitious companies a year with the top 1% of founders.
An overview of Flex Capital, the seed-stage firm run by the founding CEOs of LiveRamp, BrightRoll, Lemonaid Health, SafeGraph and Pipedream, and Akshay Akula's work there on AI and agent strategy.
The story of Vonar.ai, the government technology company Akshay Akula founded in 2025: AI voice agents, data pipelines, cloud, IoT networks and sensors for agencies, available through Carahsoft.
How Exark, which won 1st place at the 2025 DC National Security Hackathon, is building U.S.-made heavy-lift drones with AI control for contested logistics and the DARPA LIFT Challenge.
Akshay Akula on Zelcast, the AI-native talent firm that places top engineers in founding and early roles at startups under 100 people, and the network that helped him land his current job.
An overview of AngelFlow, a curated community of 500+ active angel investors where startups raise primary rounds with clear terms, shared by email the same day.
An overview of KrazyPickles, a free pickleball league app with Elo-style ratings, SMS and email game scheduling, a court finder for Northern Virginia and DC, and AI-written recaps.
An overview of Campser, a search engine for summer camps and after-school programs around Washington, DC, with 1,399 verified programs and real published prices.
An overview of Aerdos, which turns multi-source collection into finished intelligence for the U.S. intelligence community through collection, fusion, analysis and delivery.