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Applied AI for Construction

Agave builds applied AI for construction, a $12T global industry run on financial software built 20-50 years ago, much of it on-prem with no APIs and no documentation. We spent 4 years building proprietary rails that read and write across those systems. Our AI agents run on those rails and take over the back-office work contractors still do by hand: invoice matching, expenses, compliance, billing, and financial reporting. Contractors keep the systems they already use; our agents work across them. 600+ contractors run on Agave, including teams building hyperscaler data centers, mass transit systems, and other critical infrastructure. We're backed by Accel and Y Combinator, who both reinvested in our $15M Series A, plus execs from Procore, Autodesk, PlanGrid, and Plaid. Our three co-founders have worked together for 12+ years, across Graphiq (acquired by Amazon in 2017) and Amazon, and started Agave in YC's W22 batch.
Active Founders
Tom Reno
Tom Reno
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
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
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 🇨🇦.
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Jobs at Agave
San Francisco, CA, US
$130K - $200K
3+ years
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
$140K - $200K
3+ years
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote
$130K - $190K
1+ years
San Francisco, CA / Remote (US)
$140K - $285K
1+ years
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
$100K - $165K
1+ years
Agave
Founded:2021
Batch:Winter 2022
Team Size:50
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Harj Taggar