Akash Pavan is the Co-founder and CEO of Chasi, a Y Combinator W26 startup providing an AI concierge service for equipment sales, service, and rentals. His background includes being part of the founding team and General Manager at Axion Ray, where he led AI deployments for major industrial companies, with experience based out of Bengaluru, India. Akash has hands-on experience building race cars, robots, and complex industrial automation systems, bringing deep domain expertise to equipment industry automation.