You
Hammad and Zaid are saving a seat for Uplift AI's first designer.
The problem
Many businesses skip digital tools because their workers cannot read.
Uplift AI makes Voice models for regional languages like Urdu, Bengali and Pashto.
The people
Hammad Malik · CEO
- Worked on voice technology at Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa for about nine years
- Studied at Cornell University
- Built an Urdu WhatsApp bot that 800 people used within two days
Zaid Qureshi · CTO
- Former engineer at Apple and Amazon
- Designed AWS Bedrock Guardrails at Amazon
So far
$3.5M seed from YC, Indus Valley Capital and others, January 2026.
Your seat
Admit one · Uplift AI
Founding Design Engineer
- Where
- Lahore
- Salary
- $1.5k to $2.5k a month
- Equity
- 0.1% to 0.5% equity
- With
- Hammad and Zaid
- Stage
- Seed
- Team
- 3 people
- Writes code
- Yes
- Backed by
- Y Combinator S25
Sources: ycombinator.com, dawn.com