Ria Murali
PM
Incoming Technology Analyst @ Barclays. Ria's experience lies at the intersection of software development and business, with emphasis on product and GTM.
About
Trove is a predictive inventory and vendor management platform built specifically for independent cafes. Cafe inventory is uniquely complex: perishable ingredients, pre-made goods, and unpredictable daily demand create ordering decisions that are too consequential to manage on spreadsheets. Existing tools were not built for that reality. Without real-time visibility into what is selling and what is spoiling, owners are left guessing, and independent cafes lose an average of $20,000 a year to bad ordering decisions as a result. Trove is the system that changes that.
Product
Trove centralizes ingredient tracking, predictive order recommendations, and vendor management. As sales come in, inventory updates automatically against a cafe's POS system and incoming vendor invoices. Trove analyzes historical sales and demand patterns to generate a pre-populated order ready for operator approval; once approved, Trove handles the rest. Over time, Trove's proprietary model improves as it aggregates demand patterns across cafes in its network, making predictions sharper the longer a cafe is on the platform, so owners spend less time guessing and more time running their cafe.
Founders
Anushka Rane
Designer
Design, Technology, & Entrepreneurship @ USC’s Iovine and Young Academy. She enjoys bringing early-stage ideas to life through iterative process rooted in curiosity.
Josh Kim
Developer
Incoming Machine Learning Engineer @ Zayo Group. Josh’s experience is at the intersection of ML and Applied AI. His work focuses on scalable systems and real world automations.
Yihan Hong
Developer
Research Assistant @ USC SIAS Lab and AI for Healthcare Lab. Yihan's experience lies at the intersection of applied ML and full-stack engineering, with emphasis on reinforcement learning and production AI systems. Yihan is currently studying Computer Engineering and Computer Science @ USC.