Avoca

Total raised$500.0K
StageSeries B
Hiring pace11 roles / 90d
Founded2023
Team size11-50
HQNew York
IndustriesSaaSAICustomer ServiceEnterprise SoftwareSoftware Development

About Avoca

Avoca is transforming how home service companies engage with their customers. It was founded by Apurva Shrivastava and Tyson Chen as co-founders and is backed by Y Combinator. Both founders studied computer science at MIT, with Apurva having worked on AI products at Apple, Sunshine, and Retool, and Tyson previously serving as an early product manager at Nuro and a consultant at BCG. Their personal experiences managing communications for family businesses—Apurva helping his parents in Michigan and Tyson supporting his mom’s acupuncturist practice in Pennsylvania—inform Avoca’s mission. Avoca positions itself as a YC-backed innovator aimed at modernizing customer engagement for home services.

Open positions · 12

Santa Barbara · On-site · $120k–$140k/yr

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Company at a glance

Location
New York, United States
Websiteavoca.ai
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Founders & Leadership

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Aditya Agrawal

Founding Engineer @ Avoca | Principal Engineer @ Fyle | Ex YC23

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Apurva Shrivastava

Founder at Avoca (YC W23) | MIT

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BK

Bharat Kilaru

I'm making some new things ⚒️.

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JP

Jay Parekh

Founding BizOps at Avoca

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KK

Kareem Koujah

Founding Engineer @ Avoca.ai | Berkeley

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Location

About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Sales44%
  • Engineering28%
  • Operations15%
  • Other Specialized6%
  • Leadership4%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  2. 2.University of California, Berkeley
  3. 3.University of Southern California
  4. 4.Tulane University
  5. 5.Cornell University

Team Worked At

  • McKinsey & Company
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Google
  • Amazon
  • Angi

Team Composition

99 people
  • Engineering3 senior25
  • Sales1 senior15
  • Customer Success and Support10
  • Marketing9
  • Entrepreneurship6 senior7
  • Business Development4
  • Operations3
  • Administrative2

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