Avoca

AI-powered Sales Agent for Service-Based Industries

Y CombinatorWinter 2023ActiveB2B

What they do

Problem

Service-based businesses miss or fail to convert customer inquiries because they can't respond and close leads around the clock across channels.

Solution

An AI-powered voice-first sales agent that engages prospects and closes customers across voice and other communication channels 24/7.

Who it's for

Service-based businesses that want to capture, qualify, and close inbound leads automatically.

Founders

Apurva Shrivastava

Founder

Apurva is a 2nd time founder who studied CS at MIT and has worked on AI products at Apple, Sunshine, and was most recently at Retool where I did engineering. Growing up in Michigan, he helped his parents handle tiresome communications while establishing their own small business.

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Tyson Chen

Founder

Cofounder of Avoca. Previously I was an early PM at Nuro for 3 years trying to make self-driving goods delivery a reality. Before that, I worked as a consultant at BCG in NY for 2 years, helping bring AI to multiple F500 companies. I studied CS at MIT where I focused on ML research, specifically using generative AI for drug discovery. As a kid, I helped manage communications for my mom's acupuncturist business in Pennsylvania.