Agave

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 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.

Samantha Zhang is the co-founder of Agave. Prior to Agave, Samantha had been in charge of Amazon Alexa’s knowledge experiences on all multimodal devices and had designed data visualizations for leading publishers such as AP, Reuters, MSN, and Yahoo.

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 🇨🇦.