Avo
InactiveOnline convenience store for residential and office buildings
This company has previously operated under “Jul”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.
About
Avo is powering the future of "building commerce". We have found a way to embed consumer goods and services in the largest physical point of sale in the world - residential and office buildings. By offering a virtual marketplace solution for residential and commercial buildings as a world class amenity, Avo has unlocked a new channel to deliver everything from groceries to cleaning services to millions of people, while avoiding costly CAC and last mile delivery fees. By consolidating deliveries and services and leveraging the building operators to acquire their tenants as customers, Avo has driven exponential revenue growth in large cities across the US. We are backed by Y Combinator, Kleiner Perkins, Insight Partners, JLL Spark, Box Group and strong angel investors who backed Facebook, WeWork & Uber at an early stage. We currently operate in New York, Chicago, Houston, and Israel. Our rapidly expanding customer list includes Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, MongoDB, Calendly, Cushman&Wakefield, Extell, Related, LeFrak, and 1000+ more locations.
Founders · 3
Idan Hershko is a serial entrepreneur and consumer product builder. He started with Startup Camel, Israel’s leading startup podcast, then joined Monday.com as an early employee. He later co-founded Avo, a YC-backed company that raised over $100M and scaled globally. Today he is Co-CEO of Defender Razor, a patented consumer brand with fully in-house manufacturing. Defender has sold over 8 million units and is now expanding worldwide.
Product builder with a background in software engineering and experience leading product teams in fast-paced startups. Most recently led product at Deel, helping scale AI, API, WL, and more. Previously co-founded an eCommerce business. Enjoys working across disciplines—engineering, design, data—to bring clarity to messy problems and ship real solutions.
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