Apurva Shrivastava
Apurva Shrivastava is a co-founder of Avoca. YC describes him as a second-time founder who studied CS at MIT, worked on AI products at Apple and Sunshine, and was most recently an engineer at Retool working with large customers.
Relevance
Apurva’s public founder story emphasizes firsthand exposure to small-business communications through his parents’ small business, which maps to Avoca’s broader thesis that local/service operators need AI to absorb work, not just organize it.