START pod: Gohar Tamrazyan, CEO & Co-Founder, Pavoot - "Turn events into pipeline."

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Relationships drive revenue.

That's why more companies are investing in dinners, customer events, founder meetups, and community gatherings.

But here's what happens after the event:

You sourced the attendees
You sent the invites
You hosted the event
Then everyone goes home

Now you're digging through Slack messages, WhatsApp chats, notes apps, spreadsheets, and email threads trying to remember:

Who showed up.
Who you talked to.
What was discussed.
Who deserves a follow-up.

Most of that context never makes it back into the business.

The event created value.
The workflow lost it.

Pavoot is an AI event manager built for companies that run customer events

It helps teams find the right attendees and draft personalized invitations

It shows who's in the room and why they're relevant

It lets teammates capture notes around each attendee and share context with each other in real time

And afterward, those conversations can flow back into the CRM instead of disappearing into someone's phone.

The event was never the hard part.
Keeping what it created is.

Because relationships don't create value when they're made

They create value when they're remembered
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🎙️ Gohar Tamrazyan, CEO & Co-Founder Pavoot (YC P26) on Fondo START
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00:22 Co-Founder Ana's journey from Brazil to AI research at ETH Zürich
01:06 Gohar's chess background and Swiss national team experience
01:40 Building a media management tool and discovering a larger problem
02:45 Why companies are investing more heavily in in-person events
03:14 The real goal behind customer events: relationships and outcomes
04:05 Using AI to source attendees and build the right room
04:21 Event recommendations based on attendee interests
04:38 The challenge of remembering conversations after events
05:00 Why teams still rely on Slack, WhatsApp, notes, and voice recordings
05:30 Capturing attendee context and team notes in one place
06:17 Launching Pavoot's Luma integration
08:22 Which companies benefit most from AI-powered event management

learn more at pavoot.com