Construction

Agave

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Agave builds applied AI for construction, a $12T global industry run on financial software built 20-50 years ago, much of it on-prem with no APIs and no documentation. We spent 4 years building proprietary rails that read and write across those systems. Our AI agents run on those rails and take over the back-office work contractors still do by h

Founded 2021Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Agave builds applied AI for construction, a $12T global industry run on financial software built 20-50 years ago, much of it on-prem with no APIs and no documentation.

We spent 4 years building proprietary rails that read and write across those systems. Our AI agents run on those rails and take over the back-office work contractors still do by hand: invoice matching, expenses, compliance, billing, and financial reporting. Contractors keep the systems they already use; our agents work across them.

600+ contractors run on Agave, including teams building hyperscaler data centers, mass transit systems, and other critical infrastructure. We're backed by Accel and Y Combinator, who both reinvested in our $15M Series A, plus execs from Procore, Autodesk, PlanGrid, and Plaid.

Our three co-founders have worked together for 12+ years, across Graphiq (acquired by Amazon in 2017) and Amazon, and started Agave in YC's W22 batch.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Product & workflow

Agave connects your construction software systems, automates Accounts Payable workflows, and gives field and finance teams real-time visibility across projects — without replacing your ERP or PM system.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-23

Founders & team

Previously Agave Search, Agave, Agave API

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Tom Reno

Founder

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.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Pooria Azimi

Founder

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.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

John Zucchi

Founder

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 🇨🇦.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
50team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2021 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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