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Luca

Winter 2023 · Inactive

The Modern Pricing Engine for Retail

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2022

Team size: 6

About

Pricing Strategy is one of the most powerful levers that retailers have at their disposal to create growth, yet it is underleveraged. Most retail pricing teams settle for making decisions in spreadsheets, shooting in the dark, and working backward from a cost-plus margin target, leaving a LOT of money on the table. Our founders experienced these problems at scale when they built pricing tech at Uber that made Uber a billion dollars in profit a year. They realized that retail was lacking the same quality and sophistication of price tooling. So, they built Luca. Luca is an AI-powered co-pilot for retail operators, which constantly identifies revenue and profit headroom, makes recommendations for price adjustments and saves countless work hours along the way. Luca is backed by Y Combinator, Menlo Ventures, and others.

Founders

  • Tanvi SurtiFounder

    CEO and Co-Founder at Luca. Before Luca, I spent a decade building product teams at Uber and Microsoft. At Uber, I led the pricing team that created ~$1B in margin improvements on our ridesharing business.

  • Yonah MannFounder

    Co-founder and CPO of Luca. Previously led pricing teams at Uber Eats.