Where does Pooria Azimi work?

Pooria Azimi is Founder of 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).

Pooria Azimi

Founder

Founder at Agave

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedAgave · YC

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10,294 people in our graph share verified history with Pooria — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Trae StephensunlockedPooria: together at YC W22 (2022)

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Pooria: together at Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic

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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 Agave YC W22

Intro paths

Pooria went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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

AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $150K checks · since 2022

Co-founders at Agave

Tom RenoCo-founder

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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About

Founder at AgaveYC W22

Intro paths

Agave's investors · 2

Co-founders at Agave

Experience

Frequently asked questions

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia10,522

Oregon State University mafia63

Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic mafia12

Same school

Also attended Oregon State University118

Also attended Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic15

Shared employers

Also worked at Agave3

Also worked at Amazon1,104

Also worked at Graphiq Inc.10

Also worked at Oregon State University23

Founder at Agave YC W22