Test infrastructure shouldn’t bottleneck great engineering. Today, we’re launching @daqstra with @ycombinator. Daqstra turns complex test infrastructure into an AI-native operating layer. We’re Anchit and Darell, the founders of Daqstra. We first met while testing liquid rocket engines in the Mojave Desert, where we realized much of the friction wasn’t the engines—it was the infrastructure around them.

We thought building a cryogenic rocket engine would be the hard part. It wasn’t. The real bottleneck was everything around the test: fragmented hardware, brittle scripts, manual procedures, redlines, and hours spent digging through logs. So we built Daqstra: an AI-native test orchestration platform that brings hardware, live data, procedures, automation, and analysis into one place. Today, we’re excited to share that Daqstra is part of Y Combinator S26. If your team runs complex physical tests, we’d love to talk.