About
Pooria Azimi co-founded Agave after working as an engineer at Graphiq, a semantic search company acquired by Amazon, where he contributed to scaling search infrastructure across multiple languages and high query volumes. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Oregon State University.
Founder at AgaveYC W22
Intro paths
YC
Pooria went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Agave's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Pooria can intro founders to Agave's investors below.
Agave's investors · 2
Co-founders at Agave
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Tom RenoCo-founder
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John ZucchiFounder
Experience
- AgaveCo-Foundercurrent2021 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- AmazonSenior Software Engineer2019 — 2021
- AmazonSoftware Engineer2017 — 2019
- Graphiq Inc.Software Engineer2016 — 2017
- Oregon State UniversityGraduate Research And Teaching Assistant2014 — 2016
- Graphiq Inc.Software Engineer Intern2015
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Pooria Azimi?
- Pooria Azimi co-founded Agave after working as an engineer at Graphiq, a semantic search company acquired by Amazon, where he contributed to scaling search infrastructure across multiple languages and high query volumes. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Oregon State University.
- Where does Pooria Azimi work?
- Pooria Azimi is Founder of Agave.
- What companies did Pooria Azimi found?
- Pooria Azimi founded Agave.
- Where did Pooria Azimi go to school?
- Pooria Azimi studied at Oregon State University (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science).
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