Avoca

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Location New York, NY
Founded 2023
Latest Stage Series B
Total Raised $125M+
Website https://www.avoca.ai
Sector
ai vertical-saas services-economy voice-ai ai-agents

Investors

Dalton Caldwell ~2022 (2022)
Y Combinator seed (2023)
Kleiner Perkins series-a (2026)
General Catalyst series-b (2026)

About

Avoca is a New York-based AI workforce platform for service businesses, founded in 2023 by Tyson Chen and Apurva Shrivastava 12. The company builds AI agents that handle chat, email, voice calls, and SMS across the customer journey for HVAC, plumbing, automotive, moving, and other home-services operators 1. The April 27, 2026 announcement disclosed $125M+ raised across Seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation, with customers including Turnpoint, 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, Goettl, Sila Services, and H.L. Bowman; Avoca surpassed eight figures in ARR in 2025 and is on track to book $1B in jobs in 2026 13.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2023 Seed (YC W23) Undisclosed Y Combinator 14
2026 Series A Undisclosed Kleiner Perkins Amplify Partners, Nexus Venture Partners 13
2026-04-27 Series B Undisclosed (part of $125M+ total) Meritech, General Catalyst Kleiner Perkins, Amplify Partners, Nexus Venture Partners 12

What Investors Say

Alex Clayton, Meritech Capital: “Three years ago, AI voice for home services wasn’t a category. Avoca created it” 1.

Vedant Suri, General Catalyst: “Avoca is building an AI workforce for the people who keep America running” 1.

Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins: “They’re applying AI where execution is the real bottleneck” 1.

What Founders Say

Tyson Chen, co-founder: “When a home service business misses a phone call, that could be a $30,000, $40,000 HVAC install they’re missing” 2.

Sources

  1. PR Newswire, “Avoca Raises $125M+ at $1B Valuation to Power America’s Services Economy With AI,” April 27, 2026. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/avoca-raises-125m-at-1b-valuation-to-power-americas-services-economy-with-ai-302753962.html↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  2. Fortune, “How a chance encounter in Texas sparked a $1 billion Kleiner Perkins-backed AI startup,” April 27, 2026. https://fortune.com/2026/04/27/avoca-ai-agents-missed-calls-hvac-plumbing-roofing-kleiner-perkins-chen-shrivastava-braswell/↩↩↩

  3. Avoca, “Why We Are Building — Avoca,” April 27, 2026. https://www.avoca.ai/blog/avoca-raises-125m-series-b-1b-valuation↩↩

  4. “Avoca: AI-powered Sales Agent for Service-Based Industries,” Y Combinator company directory. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/avoca. Accessed April 2026. (Listed as Winter 2023 batch.) ↩