# Akshat Tyagi

> Akshat Tyagi is the founder and CEO of Metaforms, which builds AI agents for market research delivery. Based in New York, he previously founded edhack, wrote about alternative education and co-authored Now That We’re Here: The Future of Everything with Akshay Tyagi. Metaforms announced a $9 million Series A led by Peak XV Partners in July 2025. His recent writing focuses on customer understanding, reliable enterprise AI and learning from corrections.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Metaforms
- **Organizations:** Metaforms (previously WorkHack), edhack, Unboard.org
- **From:** Delhi, India
- **Known for:** Co-authored Now That We’re Here: The Future of Everything (Penguin, April 2021)., 2019 Rajeev Circle Fellow., Led Metaforms through a $9 million Series A announced in July 2025, led by Peak XV Partners with Nexus Venture Partners and Together Fund.

## Career timeline

- **2014** — Sold a content company, as recorded in his Penguin author biography.
- **2017** — Published a critique of the attention given to CBSE examination toppers in The Quint; identified as author of Naked Emperor of Education.
- **2018** — Created Unboard.org with Akshay Tyagi in May to support alternative learning and livelihood paths.
- **2019** — Founded edhack and was recognised as a Rajeev Circle Fellow.
- **2021** — Co-authored Now That We’re Here: The Future of Everything, published by Penguin in April.
- **2022** — Co-founded the business now known as Metaforms with Arjun S, according to the July 2025 funding announcement.
- **2024** — Metaforms dates its deeper introduction to market research to late 2024.
- **2025** — Metaforms announced a $9 million Series A on July 31; his 2025 recap described New York as its primary home.
- **2026** — Published writing on enterprise AI adoption and on making customer corrections easier to act upon.

## Achievements

- Co-authored Now That We’re Here: The Future of Everything (Penguin, April 2021).
- 2019 Rajeev Circle Fellow.
- Led Metaforms through a $9 million Series A announced in July 2025, led by Peak XV Partners with Nexus Venture Partners and Together Fund.
- Metaforms reported four of the world’s top twenty research agencies as customers in July 2025.
- His 2025 recap reported multi-million-dollar annual recurring revenue, more than 10,000 surveys going live and team growth from eight to thirty.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Published The best enterprise partnerships make disagreement cheap on August 25, arguing that a customer correction should change the next interaction.
- **2026-07** — Published an essay on enterprise AI adoption, listed on his LinkedIn profile with a July 22 publication date.
- **2025-07** — Announced Metaforms’ $9 million Series A and plans to expand its team, integrations and research workflows.

## Links

- Website: https://akshattyagi.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshatworkhack/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/AshAkshat

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Last updated: 2026-10-26