MochaCare

MochaCare was founded in 2025 by a team of software veterans with a pedigree from the world's largest tech ecosystems. CEO Nick Walker, a Stanford Computer Science graduate, brought his experience from engineering and product leadership roles at Spotify, Linktree, AWS, and Microsoft Azure. His personal experience navigating the complexities of companion care for neurodiverse family members served as the catalyst for the platform.

The founding team, which includes experts in agentic AI and cloud infrastructure from GoDaddy and UC Santa Barbara, joined the Y Combinator Winter 2026 (W26) cohort. Based in San Francisco, the team is mission-driven to apply high-scale tech principles (like the ones used to scale Spotify's recommendation engines) to the fragmented and often tech-starved home care market.

MochaCare is built specifically for Home Care Agency Owners and Operations Teams who are struggling to scale their business due to manual overhead. It is the ideal solution for agencies managing anywhere from 20 to 500+ caregivers. If your office staff is spending more than four hours a day on the phone managing shift swaps and "no-shows," MochaCare is designed to reclaim that time.

It is also a favorite for Home Health Franchises that need to standardize operational excellence across multiple territories. Because the platform uses AI to enforce compliance and best practices, it’s perfect for ensuring that every location meets high-quality care standards. In 2026, it has also become a sanctuary for Private Duty Agencies that want to offer a "concierge" experience to families through transparent, AI-optimized care updates.

MochaCare acts as a Virtual Operations Manager. Its primary capability is Predictive Scheduling. The AI doesn't just fill slots; it optimizes for "Care Continuity," ensuring that the same caregiver visits the same patient as much as possible, which significantly improves health outcomes. If a caregiver is running late, the AI uses real-time traffic data to update the family and suggest adjustments to the day’s route.

For the labor side, MochaCare provides Autonomous Hiring Workflows. The AI sources candidates, screens for specific certifications (like CNA or HHA), and conducts initial text-based interviews to gauge reliability and soft skills. This reduces the time-to-hire by over 60%, allowing agencies to fill urgent care gaps faster than their competitors.

As a YC W26 company, MochaCare’s pricing is Scalable and ROI-Focused. For agencies in their growth phase, they offer a Pilot Implementation that includes full AI setup and data migration for a flat introductory fee. This phase is intended to prove that the software saves more in administrative labor than it costs in subscription fees.

Once in full production, pricing typically follows a Per-Active-Caregiver model. This ensures that the agency’s costs are directly aligned with their revenue-generating capacity. For enterprise-level franchises, MochaCare offers custom packages that include white-labeled family portals and priority integration with specialized medical billing and payroll systems.

The most important thing to watch on MochaCare is the Initial Data Integrity. Because the AI "learns" from your agency’s past behavior, providing clean historical data during onboarding is vital for the system to make accurate matches. Additionally, pay attention to Caregiver Onboarding; the AI’s efficiency relies on caregivers using the mobile app consistently for clock-ins and status notes. Ensuring your field staff is trained on the app is a prerequisite for success.

In the 2026 landscape, the primary legacy alternatives are AlayaCare and AxisCare. Both are robust systems with deep clinical documentation features, but they are often viewed as "static" software compared to MochaCare's "agentic" AI approach. Homecare Homebase remains the choice for massive hospital systems, though its complexity is often overkill for independent agencies. For agencies solely focused on hiring, Apploi is a specialized alternative, though it lacks the integrated scheduling and operations power found in MochaCare.