Where does Prashant Shishodia work?

Prashant Shishodia is Founder of Kalpa Labs.

What companies did Prashant Shishodia found?

Prashant Shishodia founded Kalpa Labs.

Where did Prashant Shishodia go to school?

Prashant Shishodia studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering).

Prashant Shishodia

Founder

Founder at Kalpa Labs

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedKalpa Labs · YC

Find your path to Prashant

178 people in our graph share verified history with Prashant — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Allen ChenunlockedPrashant: together at Uber (2020)

×8Prashant: together at Uber

×3Prashant: together at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

About

Prashant Shishodia led machine learning infrastructure at Google, working on systems that processed billions of queries monthly. He now leads product development at Kalpa Labs focused on speech models.

Founder at Kalpa Labs YC F25

Intro paths

Prashant went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Kalpa Labs's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Prashant can intro founders to Kalpa Labs's investors below.

Kalpa Labs's investors · 2

Tekedia CapitalLagos · $1K checks · since 2026 Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Kalpa Labs

Gautam JhaFounder

Experience

Kalpa Labs (YC F25)Co-Founder / CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
GoogleSenior Software Engineer2025Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
GoogleSoftware Engineer III2023 — 2025Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
GoogleSoftware Engineer III2023Bengaluru
GoogleSoftware Engineer II2021 — 2023Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
UberSDE Internship2020Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Skills & more

Deep Learning2Machine Learning2Algorithms1Programming1Data Structures1Combinatorics1Graph Theory1Flask2

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Prashant Shishodia?: Prashant Shishodia led machine learning infrastructure at Google, working on systems that processed billions of queries monthly. He now leads product development at Kalpa Labs focused on speech models.
Where does Prashant Shishodia work?: Prashant Shishodia is Founder of Kalpa Labs.
What companies did Prashant Shishodia found?: Prashant Shishodia founded Kalpa Labs.
Where did Prashant Shishodia go to school?: Prashant Shishodia studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering).