Hello, We're Astro

We're making email and workplace communications more intelligent, so teams can focus on what matters.

2.5 billion
people send

200+ billion
emails every day

(source: Radicati Group 2015)

AI will change how we email

With so many emails sent from inbox to inbox, the experience should be getting more intelligent. There’s more valuable data in email than any other workplace tool, and this data is ripe for analysis and automation. 

And the time for this automation is now. Advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing, enable Astro to bring improvements to email that weren’t possible even a few years ago.

Email will work for you

Your inbox should tell you what to focus on, remind you when something has slipped through the cracks, and get everything else out of your way. It should connect to other tools and work smoothly across platforms. It should be modern and dare-we-say fun.

This is what we’re building at Astro.

Meet the Astro team

In 2015, our co-founders came back together, after working together at Zimbra, Yahoo, VMWare and LinkedIn. We’re now a growing team based in Palo Alto, excited about the potential of artificial intelligence to improve email and workplace communications. We’re supported by a great team of advisors and investors, including Redpoint Ventures, Harrison Metal, Aspect Ventures, and Upside Partnership.

Roland was co-founder of Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo for $350M); co-founder & CTO of mobile-messaging company Mumbo (acquired by LinkedIn); founding engineer at Onebox.com (acquired by Phone.com for $850M) and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Redpoint Ventures.

Andy was on the founding business team at Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo for $350M), closing the first 7-figure sale of its collaboration software; and at Onebox.com (acquired by Phone.com for $850M). His favorite astronaut is Loren Acton, and his favorite Jetson is Uniblab.

Emily was most recently Head of Marketing at Asana. She was previously at Ticketfly, Salesforce, Universal McCann and attended Harvard Business School and Tufts University. Her favorite Jetson is (coincidentally) Astro.

David was a founding engineer at collaboration app Versly (acquired by Cisco), and a senior engineer at Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo for $350M) and BEA Systems. His favorite (future) astronaut is Elon Musk.

Ross was co-founder of Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo for $350M); cofounder of mobile-messaging company Mumbo (acquired by LinkedIn); founding engineer at Onebox.com (acquired for $850M by Phone.com); and is a principal at investment firm Volt Ventures. We think his favorite Jetson is Mr. Spacely.

San was a founder of LinkedIn flagship infrastructure team where he led a team of rockstar engineers to build iOS and Android apps, as well as API server infrastructure. San was one of the key players in rewriting LinkedIn’s flagship iOS and Android apps in 2015. In his previous life, San was a lead architect for Yahoo! Mail.

Anthony was previously an Android team lead at Google, co-founder of Spotivate, an AngelPad e-commerce startup, and developer at Yahoo & Zimbra. His favorite astronaut is Buzz Lightyear.

Yuichi is an experienced full-stack developer who was previously at LinkedIn, Mumbo, VMware, Openwave.

Parag is a lead mobile and front-end developer who was previously at LinkedIn, Mumbo, Zimbra.

Ani is a backend developer who was previously at LinkedIn and studied at Cornell University.

Zach was previously lead UX Designer at Moov, maker of fitness wearables. He is an avid climber, double backflipper, and former photographer. Zach’s favorite “astronaut” is Wall-E.

Ian is a front-end and mobile developer with previous positions at Cisco and Qualcomm. His favorite astronaut is Yuri Gagarin simply because he was the first to go to space.

Contact us

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press@helloastro.com
feedback@helloastro.com

3335 Birch St,
Palo Alto, CA 94306

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