Thanks to our customers, Quadric has outgrown its headquarters. Effective June 18, our new address is 270 East Lane, Burlingame, CA 94010.

Processor & Software Veterans

Our team brings decades of experience shipping processor IP and AI software at ARM, Tensilica, Intel, and AMD, powering billions of devices.

Now we've built the future of AI inference at the edge.

Exits Across Team

70+

Processor IP Customers

18MW

Datacenter Chips Deployed

CPO & Co-founder

Daniel Firu

Full-Stack · HW to Datacenter

21.co · 2x Founder · 1 Exit

Led product and customer relationships at 21.co. Designed low-power ASICs deployed in datacenters. Microarchitecture to manufacturing to BD.

CEO & Co-founder

Veer Kheterpal

3x Founder · 2 Exits

21.co · Fabbrix · Carnegie Mellon PhD

18 years building deep-tech startups with 2 exits. Fabbrix (software) acquired by PDF Solutions. 21.co: shipped 3 chips in 18 months, silicon to services.

CTO & Co-founder

Nigel Drego

MIT PhD · Chief Architect

21.co · 2x Founder · 1 Exit

Computer architecture expert with deep expertise in compilers and software. At 21.co: Chief Architect, designed 3 chips in 18 months and HPC systems.

CMO

Steve Roddy

ARM ML VP · 17 yrs Tensilica

ARM · Cadence · UC Berkeley

4 years VP ML Product at ARM. 17 years at Tensilica/Cadence as VP Marketing & Strategic Partnerships. Deep Processor IP expertise.

VP, Eng

Dhanendra Jani

30+ yrs · Built Tensilica DSPs

Cadence · Tensilica · Intel

Led teams building CPUs, DSPs, accelerators at Intel, Tensilica, Cadence. Delivered multiple lines of DSP cores that made Tensilica #2 in processor IP.

VP, Worldwide Sales

Lee Vick

15 yrs Tensilica · VP Sales

Synopsys · Cadence · Tensilica

Leads field ops, direct and indirect sales. 15 years at Tensilica managing largest strategic IP customers. Earlier R&D at TI, Compaq, DoD.

VP, Software

Ravi Chakaravarthy

24 yrs · AMD/MIPS AI

AMD · MIPS

Senior Director at AMD leading open-source AI frameworks and stack. Head of AI Software at MIPS (RISC-V NPU). 14 years at Broadcom and HP.

Head of People

Rachel Birks

The People Engine Behind Hypergrowth

SambaNova · Sauce Labs · Google

Taking companies from under 100 employees to 600+ — building the hiring engines, people programs, and culture that let fast-moving organizations grow with intention.

Chief Financial Officer

Lucia Greenblatt

CFA Charterholder, UCLA Anderson MBA

20+ years Tech Investment Banking · MUFG Managing Director

Raised more than $100B in funding across 40 Tech companies and infrastructure project financings: Arm, CoreWeave, Mobileye, SanDisk, Palantir.