2x founder
Pranav Uppiliappan
MochaCare: AI trusted by Home Care & loved by caregivers. CS @ UIUC | YC W26
Experience
Career
2026MochaCare (YC W26)
Co-founderCo-Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2026 – Present
2025Stealth AI Startup
Co-founderCo-Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025 – Present
2022OurSevaUS
Volunteer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2022 – Present
2025GoDaddy
Product Manager · 2025
2025GoDaddy
Product Manager · 2025
2023UC Santa Barbara
Machine Learning - Economics Research Fellow · Santa Barbara, CA · 2023 – 2024
2023UC Santa Barbara
Advisory Board Member · Santa Barbara County, CA · 2023 – 2024
2023Decision Minds
Software Engineer · Milpitas, CA · 2023
- 2020
Startup
Trading · San Francisco, California, United States · 2020 – 2022
- 2018
PRAGNYA
Caregiving · 2018 – 2020
2018VMware
Software Engineering Internship Immersion · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2018
2017Hindu Mission Hospital
Management Internship · 2017
Bio
Co-Founder @ MochaCare | Masters in CS @ UIUC - AI Agents @ GoDaddy - ML Research Fellow @ UCSB - SWE @ DecisionMinds I spent eight years doing companion care for neurodiverse people and worked with US Congress to support legislation in the space. My grandparents also played a big role in my life (my grandpa taught me the times table). Now I'm building MochaCare — the AI-native management service that supports care organizations that support older folks and neurodiverse people.