Pooria Azimi

Yo, have you heard about Pooria Azimi? The dude’s a straight-up tech beast. He’s from YC W22, so he’s fresh off the startup bootcamp, but don’t let that fool you. He’s been around the block a ton.

So here’s the deal: Pooria’s the founder of Agave, a company that’s trying to shake up the $12 trillion construction industry, yeah, trillion with a T. Basically, the industry’s a mess, tons of data spread all over the place, old systems that don’t talk to each other, and no real modern software to make it all smooth. Pooria’s whole thing is unifying all that fractured data and software to make construction projects run way better. It’s like he saw the chaos and said, “Nah, we can do better,” and now he’s building the tech to do just that.

Before all this, he worked at Amazon, but not just any role, he was a senior software engineer, a core guy on Alexa’s Q&A platform. Basically, he helped build the brain behind one of the coolest voice assistants out there. Not only that, he led 21 engineers across three teams, including the launch of Alexa’s enterprise stuff. The guy’s got serious leadership skills and knows how to handle big, complex systems.

And get this, he started out at Graphiq, a startup that was all about data visualization and integration. Amazon saw the possible, bought Graphiq in 2017 to boost Alexa’s growth, and Pooria jumped on that opportunity. So, he’s been working at the intersection of data, AI, and systems for over a decade. That’s a long time of building cool shit, and it shows he’s got serious hustle and vision.

What’s crazy is, he’s been working with his Agave co-founders since those early days, first at Graphiq, then at Amazon, and now they’re back together to tackle this huge problem in construction. He’s all about fixing real-world issues that big industries ignore because they’re too complicated or stuck in their ways, not just about building tech for the sake of it.

And yeah, Agave’s raised over $5 million from big names like YC, Accel, and industry giants like Plaid, Procore, Autodesk, and PlanGrid. That’s no small feat. It’s a sign that he’s onto something legit and that the industry sees it too.

Bottom line? Pooria Azimi is the real deal. Dude’s a tech innovator who’s been crushing it across multiple domains, from AI at Amazon to transforming construction finance now. His process’s all about taking complex, messy problems and building the future of how industries work. No Cap, this guy’s just getting started, and I’d bet my house he’s gonna keep making waves.