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Prashant Shishodia

Founder

Founder at Kalpa Labs

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedKalpa Labs · YC

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 LabsYC F25

Intro paths

YC

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

GP

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 2026Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Kalpa Labs

GJGautam Jha
Gautam JhaFounder

Experience

  1. Kalpa Labs (YC F25)Co-Founder / CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. GoogleSenior Software Engineer2025Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  3. GoogleSoftware Engineer III2023 — 2025Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  4. GoogleSoftware Engineer III2023Bengaluru
  5. GoogleSoftware Engineer II2021 — 2023Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  6. 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).

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