Apurva Shrivastava

Overview

Apurva Shrivastava is a co-founder of Avoca [1], an AI sales and contact center agent for home services companies based in New York City [1]. Shrivastava holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [10] and attended Y Combinator in 2023 [11]. Prior to founding Avoca, Shrivastava worked as an engineer at Retool from 2020 to 2022 [4] and as a software engineer at Sunshine from 2018 to 2020 [5]. Earlier experience includes a software engineering internship at Apple in 2017 [8], an associate product management internship at Google in 2018 [6], and a trading internship at Susquehanna International Group in 2016 [9]. Shrivastava also co-founded Capiche Inc in 2017 [7].

Career history

1. Founder2022 to PresentAvoca
2. Engineer2020 to 2022Retool
3. SSoftware Engineer2018 to 2020Sunshine
4. Associate Product Management Intern2018 to 2018Google
5. CICo-Founder2017 to 2018Capiche Inc
6. Software Engineering Intern2017 to 2017Apple
7. Trader Intern2016 to 2016Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG)

Education

1. Bachelor's degree, Computer ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Y Combinator2023 - 2023

Media & appearances

• Product Talk with MalthiApple Podcasts2025-05-09
  Episode 28: Building Trust Through Compliance | Apurva Shrivastava on Product Strategy in MarketplacesWhat do regulations, compliance, and trust have to do with product strategy? A lot more than you think. In this episode, product leader Apurva Shrivastava shares how regulations like KYC, AML, GDPR, and the Inform Act directly shape decisions at p
• Stride StoriesApple Podcasts2022-04-21
  Ep 3: From Wall Street to Pioneering Digital Entertainment | Aditi Shrivastava | PocketAcesFrom Princeton to Goldman Sachs to Digital-First Entertainment. Doesn’t sound like a conventional journey right? Well, in the latest episode of Stride Stories we have one of the most resilient, innovative and unconventional founder of the ecosystem, Aditi Shrivastava – Co-Founder and CEO of PocketAces. From Ayush and Barkha from Filtercopy, Dhruv and Kavya from Dice Media, to the lip-smacking dishes on Gobble, nothing better represents GenZ, Entertainment, Content and Tech - together other than PocketAces. We are excited to host the former Wall-Street banker who took the plunge to entrepreneurship and put India on the world map for digital first content and entertainment in the 3rd episode of Stride Stories. Tune into this podcast to listen to-: How was PocketAces born and what is its vision - 1:15When did you realise that you wanted to transform the content and digital entertainment industry? 5:40Convincing brands about the content-to-commerce play before it was popular in the industry – 10:00Defining the output metrics to track ROI and Engagement - 13:23Building an extensive digital distribution - 21:39How does PocketAces look at short-form video content and influencer marketing to their business strategy? - 25:49Content creation strategy of PocketAces for OTT platforms like Netflix going forward - 30:34Why was Loco spun-off into a separate entity?
• TBPNApple Podcasts2026-04-28
  In-Car Surveillance, Goblin-Mode, Jon Gray from Blackstone Joins | Colleen Aubrey, Anthony Liguori, Colin Zima, Alex Epstein, Shira Lazar, Anshul Gupta, Apurva Shrivastava, Bubble Boi