Agave

AI Financial Operations for Construction

Y CombinatorWinter 2022ActiveB2BSaaSConstructionB2BProptech

What they do

Problem

Construction companies struggle to run financial operations because their legacy, on-prem accounting systems lack APIs and are difficult to integrate or automate.

Solution

Agave provides an AI-powered financial operations platform that connects to and reads/writes across legacy construction systems to automate invoicing, expenses, compliance, and billing.

Who it's for

Construction firms and contractors managing back-office finance workflows on legacy accounting/ERP systems.

Founders

Tom Reno

Co-founder

Tom is co-founder/CEO of Agave. Before Agave, Tom worked at Amazon, Barclays Investment Bank, and Graphiq (acq. by Amazon). He is a proud Delawarian.

Pooria Azimi

Founder

Pooria is the co-founder of Agave. Prior to Agave, Pooria was a core engineer behind Graphiq, a semantic search startup in Santa Barbara, CA, later acquired by Amazon to power Alexa. At Amazon, he helped scale Graphiq Search to dozens of languages and billions of queries per month. Originally from Iran, he has a master degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University.

John Zucchi

Founder

John is a co-founder of Agave. Before Agave, John was a Technical Program Manager at Amazon Alexa building an enterprise product from inception, Product Manager at Graphiq (acq. by Amazon), and Equity Capital Markets Analyst at Barclays Investment Bank. John graduated from Columbia, and was born and raised in Toronto 🇨🇦.