Ankith Subramanya
| Ankith Subramanya | |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, software engineer |
|---|---|
| Known for | Founder and CEO of MangoDesk |
| Education | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S., Computer Science) |
Ankith Subramanya is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is the founder and CEO of MangoDesk, a company that builds production-grade reinforcement learning (RL) environments for software engineering. MangoDesk was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch.[1]
Early life and education
Subramanya attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. While a sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, he participated in the university's entrepreneurship community. In September 2017, he took part in "54," a startup competition organized by Founders, a student entrepreneurship organization at the university. During the event, Subramanya led a four-person team that developed "Small World," a travel application designed to help users manage trip budgets by generating personalized itinerary feeds based on a user's budget and calendar inputs.[2]
Career
Prior to founding MangoDesk, Subramanya worked as a software engineer at Scale AI, where he helped build the company's generative AI data engine serving frontier AI laboratories.[3]
Subramanya co-founded MangoDesk in 2025 alongside Ananth Subramanya. The company is based in San Francisco, California, and focuses on evaluating and improving AI models on meaningful use cases through production-grade reinforcement learning environments. MangoDesk's stated mission is to bridge the gap between AI capabilities and the knowledge work economy through data.[4]
MangoDesk was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch and subsequently raised an oversubscribed seed round led by venture capital investors. The company's team includes members with prior experience at Scale AI, Uber, and other AI companies. As of early 2026, MangoDesk operates in the artificial intelligence sector and is actively hiring software engineers, researchers, and operators.[5]
References
- ↑ "MangoDesk – Y Combinator". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "54 hours to create a startup". 'The Daily Illini}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Jobs at MangoDesk (S25)". 'Y Combinator – Work at a Startup}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "MangoDesk". 'MangoDesk}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "MangoDesk". 'MangoDesk}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.