Parth Maheshwari

Co-founder & CTO of Mochatrade, a trading platform company based in New York.

Co-founder · CTONew YorkTrading Platform

Founded

2026

New York, United States

Raised to date

$5.6M

2 rounds on record

Latest round

Seed

$4.87M · October 2026

About

Parth Maheshwari is Co-founder & CTO of Mochatrade, a trading platform company based in New York, founded in 2026. Mochatrade's most recent disclosed round was a Seed of $4.87M in October 2026.

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Company

Est. 2026

Mochatrade

Trading Platform · New York · Active

Mochatrade is a trading platform built for Indian traders that combines UPI funding and rupee balances with perpetual futures contracts linked to US stocks, indices, commodities and some crypto assets, offering more than 50 US stock contracts with leverage of up to 50 times and no need for a US brokerage account. Users do not own the underlying shares or receive dividends. Founded in 2026 in New York by IIT graduates Utkarsh Sinha, its chief executive, who previously founded the crypto wallet Martian, Chetan Manda, its chief product officer and a former product director at Sprinklr, and Parth

Funding

October 2026Seed$4.87MCoinFund (lead), Coinbase Ventures, Zero Knowledge Ventures

2026Pre-seed$0.69MY Combinator, Pioneer Fund

Company profile →2 rounds on record

Journey with Mochatrade

2 milestones

2026Founded
Founded in New York by IIT graduates Utkarsh Sinha, Chetan Manda and Parth Maheshwari, who previously built the crypto wallet Martian, and joins Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch to build 24/7 perpetual futures on US stocks for traders outside the US.
Oct 2026Milestone
In beta with a waitlist of more than 25,000, offering Indian users UPI-funded perpetual contracts on more than 50 US stocks through ALSD Technologies, registered with FIU-IND as a virtual digital asset service provider.

Also building Mochatrade

USUtkarsh SinhaCo-founder · CEO→CMChetan MandaCo-founder · CPO→

Coverage

1 story

Funding · 27 Oct 2026 · 5 min read

Mochatrade Raises $5.5M to Bring Crypto-Style Perpetual Futures on US Stocks to Indian Traders

Quick answers

Who is Parth Maheshwari?

Parth Maheshwari is a Co-founder & CTO of Mochatrade, a trading platform company based in New York, founded in 2026.

Who founded Mochatrade?

Mochatrade's founders and leadership on record at StartupFox are Utkarsh Sinha, Chetan Manda and Parth Maheshwari.

How much funding has Mochatrade raised?

Mochatrade has raised $5.6M across 2 disclosed rounds on record. The latest was a Seed of $4.87M in October 2026, with CoinFund (lead), Coinbase Ventures, Zero Knowledge Ventures.

Where is Mochatrade based?

Mochatrade is headquartered in New York, United States.

What has StartupFox reported about Parth Maheshwari?

StartupFox has published 1 story naming Parth Maheshwari; the most recent is “Mochatrade Raises $5.5M to Bring Crypto-Style Perpetual Futures on US Stocks to Indian Traders”.

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