Sarang Deshpande - Founder, Yuja

Sarang Deshpande

Founder, Yuja

Sarang is the founder of Yuja, a modern and sustainable urban rides platform. He founded Yuja with the aim of making the experience of moving in a city convenient and flexible.

-> Yuja offers an affordable and on-demand shared ride service that serves the last-mile from public transport to residential, commercial, or other public spaces in a city.
-> The Yuja Smart Meter app is a productivity app that helps auto-rickshaw drivers find rides easily and take reserved rides at mandated fare rates without hefty commissions.

Sarang loves all things product, systems, technology, and design. Bringing Yuja to life, he has built a strong core team and raised grant funding from several avenues. In a previous avatar, Sarang co-founded Cambio Motion to develop high-performance electric powertrain platforms for passenger cars. He is an active proponent of technology education. He has designed courses and content around electric vehicle technology and sustainable mobility systems and delivers it regularly to student and corporate audiences.

Reach out to him for: Product, software and system design (cloud, ML, AI), electric vehicles, hardware, design, brand development, and education. Or to play music or badminton together!

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