AI-powered communications platform for SMBs Avoca (YC W23) is building AI virtual receptionists for SMBs. Their initial product uses text and voice AI to enable SMBs to automatically answer customer phone calls, schedule bookings, and request reviews 24x7. Their vision is to build the entire pipeline for communication across a customer's lifecycle for SMBs so that owners can focus on their core business. The founders are two MIT engineers with a background in building AI first products: Apurva Shrivastava, a 2nd time AI founder who was an engineer at Retool, and Tyson Chen, who was an early PM at Nuro and previously built chatbots for F500 companies at BCG. Since officially launching just 2 months ago, the company has found tremendous traction with 3 customer verticals, just closed a seed round with some of the top seed investors in the valley, and are growing revenue 35% every month.
