Atharva Peshkar is the Co-founder and CTO of AxionOrbital Space, a Y Combinator W26 startup building foundation models for 24/7 Earth Observation. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from CU Boulder and worked as a researcher at Harvard VCG (Visual Computing Group). AxionOrbital's primary product, ORION, transforms Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data into high-resolution optical satellite imagery, enabling continuous visibility regardless of weather or time of day, solving the limitation of traditional optical satellites.