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Avoca

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AI-powered Sales Agent for Service-Based Industries

Winter 2023Founded 202285 peopleNew York City, NY, USA
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We specialize in voice and can close customers across every channel 24/7.

Founders ยท 2

Apurva Shrivastava
Apurva ShrivastavaFounder
AppleMIT

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.

Tyson Chen
Tyson ChenFounder
BCGMIT

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.

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