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AI-powered Sales Agent for Service-Based Industries

Winter 2023Founded 202285 peopleNew York City, NY, USA

About

We specialize in voice and can close customers across every channel 24/7.

Founders Β· 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.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator Β· Mar 2023
View launch post β†—

We’re equipping every SMB with an intelligent, 24/7 customer communications platform so business owners can get back to focusing on their core business

Avoca AI launches a 24/7, AI-powered customer communications platform that handles inbound and outbound interactions for SMBs, aiming to capture customer intent, reduce missed calls, and build loyalty through automated phone, text, email, appointment booking, and review/social proof workflows.

From the original launch (Mar 2023) β€” may be outdated.

Formerly β€œsynergy.ai”

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