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Cenote

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AI agents for conversational commerce

W25·Winter 2025·B2B·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 2·Founded 2024

About

Cenote helps online D2C brands convert more shoppers through AI sales reps that can call and text. Online stores rely on static websites, one-way email and SMS campaigns, and inside sales teams with limited availability. But many purchases are better suited to a conversation: shoppers have questions, need guidance, or simply are not excited to buy based on what's on the site alone. Today, those shoppers are poorly served. Abandoned-checkout campaigns are generic, call centers close, and slow human follow-up allows high-intent leads to go cold. Our customers often see conversion rates below 1% from traditional abandoned-checkout outreach. Cenote's AI reps reach shoppers immediately, remember their context, and continue the conversation across channels and over time. This gives every interested shopper access to a personalized sales rep and helps brands recover revenue from leads they have already paid to acquire.

Founders

  • Kofi Ansong· Founder

    Ex Google, Promise (YC 2018). Yale University Computer Science 2021.

  • Kristy Gao· Founder

    Ex Google, PayPal, Watershed. University of Waterloo Computer Science 2022.

Product launches · 2 launches

Change history · 6 recorded

  1. July 15, 2026
    • Pitch updated07:00 PM
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    • Team reduced from 3 to 207:00 PM
    • Industry reclassified to B2B07:00 PM
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