In this episode, we meet Ash and learn about his journey building Axal, and Autopilot and dive deep into the network of verifiable agents they’re building. 

Ash is a recent Harvard Grad who founded Axal. He participated in a16z's CSS program in the Spring of 2023. He recently fundraised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding led by CMT Digital. Afterwards, he recruited a team of 5 people, whose backgrounds include serving in the United States Military, studying at Harvard Business School/NYU under Yann LeCun, working at quant funds, and creating viral YouTube videos. 

Ash worked for AWS and crypto VCs before creating Axal. He is from Massachusetts originally and has a twin brother who is also a startup founder.

Here’s how to keep up with Ash and all the cool things happening at Axal:

Ash’s Twitter https://x.com/ashlan_ahmed 

Axals’ Twitter https://x.com/getaxal 

Axals’ Substack https://axal.substack.com/ 

Gekko AI’s Twitter https://x.com/Gekko_Agent