Her Story
About Mira
Mira Mehta is the co-founder of Connect Care, an elder care coordination platform she launched in January 2026 with her college best friend. The platform uses facial mapping on video calls and care coordination tools to support families, especially those in the Global South Diaspora separated from loved ones in India. Prior to founding the company, she spent two years at Blackstone in the Breads group focusing on real estate credit and one and a half years at Bridge, now part of Apollo, handling real estate acquisitions. She studied economics at the University of Chicago after attending the Hockaday School in Dallas for 14 years. She remains actively involved in the University of Chicago alumni community and values hard work, perseverance, and empathy in her work, crediting her parents for their support and inspiration.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Mira
01What do you attribute your success to?
I give a lot of credit to my parents. I'm an only child and very close to them. What has helped me so far is using them as a sounding board, always having their encouragement and advice, and feeling like I want to make them proud more than anything else. That's also why Connect Care feels very special, because it's really for our own parents and grandparents, giving back everything they've sacrificed and done for us.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Just do it. Don't get intimidated by what has been done. Use that as inspiration and a fire to do even better. The hardest and scariest part is just starting. Find the right people, find something that is meaningful to you, and the rest kind of just falls in place.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Challenges include being two women building this in a space where caretaking is traditionally on women, explaining the emotional significance to men in the industry, bias towards care in India, and adapting facial mapping technology for elder care. Opportunities include building the world's largest data set on the Global South Diaspora which has been underrepresented in FDA trials, bridging Western and Eastern medicine, and unlocking data for pharmacovigilance, clinical research, and drug discovery.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Hard work, perseverance, and empathy. Building your own company requires a lot of patience, especially something involving people's families and lives, which requires perspective and empathy to understand pain points and find solutions. Treat every obstacle as an opportunity to learn, don't take no for an answer, and constantly try to go above and beyond.
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