Avoca

Avoca took over the track at ServiceTitan Pantheon this week. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and took a lap with us. Circuit Florida Ryan Dalziel Deepak Chandrasekaran Sean Z. K. Dave Garrett We're just warming up. 🏁

We'll be at ServiceTitan Pantheon next week as the Trailblazer Sponsor 🤝 🧢 Stop by our booth. We'll have limited-edition swag and our most humanlike voice yet. See us on stage: 🎙️ Monday, 2:00pm - Workshop on building AI apps with our Head of Product, Bharat Kilaru 🚀 Wednesday, 10:15am - Keynote where Tyson Chen & Apurva Shrivastava will unveil our newest product ⛳ We're giving away $10K and a full-expense paid golf experience with PGA golfer Brian Harman. We are pumped. See you soon 🔥

There's an idea at the center of IDEAL Energy Cooperative repeating: independent businesses are stronger together than alone. IDEAL is a member-owned cooperative for independent, privately-held fuel and energy retailers. We are so excited to join their family as a partner, helping members run an AI-enabled front office without losing the personal touch their customers count on. A huge thanks to IDEAL for bringing us in, IDEAL Energy Cooperative + Fuel-Local. Looking forward to what we build together!

We're growing, and we're growing fast. 😮💨 Meet the latest additions to the crew. 🏀 Nate Fleischli (Forward Deployed Engineer) played baseball at Stanford before working full-stack at Nextdoor. Fun fact: he’s played pickup basketball with Bronny Jr. When he’s not on the court, he’s doing cardio on the West Side Highway. 🎵 Stephanie Yen (Forward Deployed Engineer) grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and spent the past two years as an Integrations Engineer at Merge. Stephanie swears she doesn’t get jet lag (or maybe she’s just been on too many flights). She loves live shows, writing, climbing, and tennis! 🥋 Kyle DuBose (IT Manager) spent his career in the SF startup scene building IT functions from scratch. He’s also a black belt in Tang Soo Do. Kyle’s into live music, video games, theater, and reading. 🎖️ Gabriel Rogow (Technical Account Manager) is a former Army Armor Officer (seven years) turned account manager. Gabe spends his downtime logging movies on Letterboxd, watching football, and visiting museums. 💃 Ambikha Maharaj, M.S., PMP Maharaj (Technical Account Manager) is from Houston, with a background in business analytics and customer success at Dow Chemicals and Dripos. She’s classically trained in Indian singing and dancing. Between volunteering, hot yoga, and travel, she’s always on the move. 🥚 Dillon Galvin (SDR) joins us from Glean. He’s the reigning champion of his family’s picnic egg toss. When he’s not competing, he’s playing basketball, tennis, surfing, or golfing. Welcome, all! We’re so glad you’re here. P.S. We’re hiring! The next carousel could have your face in it.

Catalina Cleaning, based in Miami, has taken AI head on and automated the majority of workflows in their business. Tyson Chen sits down with founder Roy Banwell to chat through: 🛠️ What he chose to automate and what he didn’t 🤝 How he is able to pay his cleaners almost 2x the market rate 🪴 Growing pains in new geographies Tune in to Trade Secrets: From the Ground Up, wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnkd.in/g-TeNnW4

Rescue Air and Plumbing is my baby. I owned a company (Campbell Mechanical) in Northern Virginia for a decade before I failed and sold it for peanuts, tucked my tail between my legs and ran to Texas for a fresh start. I swore I’d never start another company……. Until Mike and I did. Avoca and a founder Tyson Chen had us on their podcast and we share not only some of this story but how we became Avoca’s first customer and more from working together over the years. Enjoy!