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Cactus

Spring 2025 · Active

24/7 AI Call Center for Home Services

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2024

Team size: 2

About

Cactus is the 24/7 AI call center built for home service businesses. Our AI answers calls, qualifies customers, books jobs, and follows up automatically, helping business owners capture more leads and retain more customers - all without hiring additional staff.

Founders

  • Ajith GovindCo-Founder & CEO

    2x YC Founder. Entrepreneur at heart with computer science background. Building Cactus to empower every home service business in the world to succeed. Previously built Turing Labs W20, Series A raising over $20M. I collaborated closely with most of the Top 20 CPGs, including P&G, Unilever, Nestle, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Mars, and many others, delivering over $65M in impact. Personal motto: Never give up!

  • Avinash JoshiCo-founder & CTO

    I'm a Rails programmer, a builder and love coding. I fell in love with computers at a very young age. Over the years I've shipped products across various programming languages and frameworks, including HTML+CSS, PHP, Python, Django, React, Angular, and Rails. From right-click save as HTML to left-click vibecoding, I've built it all! I have a simple mantra - "It’s Possible."