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Poka Labs (YC S24) — Helping industrial manufacturers win more business at the best price

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Poka Labs builds an AI platform to help sales reps at chemical manufacturers respond to requests from customers and win more business. Our agents understand each companies product catalog, customer purchase behaviors, and tribal knowledge in order to price, quote, and win the business.

Poka Labs is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2024 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Helping industrial manufacturers win more business at the best price. The founders listed are Malay Shah (Founder/CEO), Andrew Bass (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 18, 2024).

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Poka Labs

New accelerator entry · 2024-07-18 · the record

Summer 2024
batch
6
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchSummer 2024
Announced2024-07-18
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size6
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics
SectorsSaaS, Supply Chain, AI, Industrial
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://www.pokalabs.com/
Founded2023

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Poka Labs builds an AI platform to help sales reps at chemical manufacturers respond to requests from customers and win more business. Our agents understand each companies product catalog, customer purchase behaviors, and tribal knowledge in order to price, quote, and win the business. Malay and Andrew met while pursuing at Harvard Business School and now are building for companies ranging from a few million in sales per year to billions.

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