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Daqstra

AI-native orchestration for physical R&D testing

San Francisco

3 employees

Hard Tech

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About Daqstra

Daqstra is the AI-native orchestration layer for physical R&D. It saves engineers in Aerospace, Energy and Robotics hundreds of man hours managing test infrastructure by connecting fragmented test hardware, bringing live and historical test data into one place, and by giving engineers an API to orchestrate their entire test setup. We enable teams to spend less time rebuilding test infrastructure and more time improving the hardware they test.

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Team Size3

LocationSan Francisco

IndustryHard Tech

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StandoutYBacked by Y Combinator · P26

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Founders

Darell Chua-yun-da

Co-founder of Daqstra, listed on the UCSD Basement Launchpad portfolio page.

Setekh Karaismailoglu

Co-founder of Daqstra, listed on the UCSD Basement Launchpad portfolio page.

Anchit Kumar

I’m a co-founder of Daqstra (YC S26), building AI-native orchestration for test infrastructure in physical R&D. I studied computer science at UCSD, where I led AI and autonomy for Mars cave exploration drones and worked on multimodal AI safety for vision-language-action robots. My co-founder and I met building rocket engines, and I’ve since worked across 10+ test campaigns in the Mojave Desert.

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