Kinect

About

Kinect builds AI agents that know your brand, your catalog, and your customers. On your site, they sell every visitor — running the conversation, adapting product pages in real time to each customer segment, picking the right recommendation for the question being asked. The agent picks up on what each shopper actually wants from how they ask, what they hesitate on, what they compare, and what objection makes them bounce. We take all of a brand's data and make a structured catalog, brand voice, fit notes, return reasons, segment-level nuance — all so the Kinect agents truly can speak about a brand. When an agent describes the brand, the version it describes is the one you'd want them to, not whatever it guessed from a public catalog scrape. We expose this data as well in the form of agent storefronts, letting every other AI talk about your brand in the way you would want too. We're building for human shoppers today and the AI agents that shop and discover for them. Either way, the entire website needs to get a lot smarter and personalized. Two surfaces. One layer. Built for scaling DTC ecommerce brands.

Founders

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  Kratik Agrawal· Founder

  CEO & Co-Founder of Kinect. Previously worked at Google Commerce. Built detection models at Anduril, and was on the enterprise new-products team at Verkada. Before Kinect, I was leading the Conversational Intelligence team at Reevo, helping B2B sellers go into each meeting more prepared and win more. CS @ UCLA

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  Varun Kandula· Founder

  Co-Founder at Kinect. Previously led the Context Graph team at Reevo and worked as an engineer at MongoDB and Capital One. Advised Sephora on "Ask AI" tools. Built and scaled his own e-commerce brand to $10K in revenue. As President of NextGen Consulting, led engagements with leading retail brands and sourced $200K+ in contracted ARR across 10+ clients. Former national squash player and peaked at #23 in the US.

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Product launches · 1 launch

• Kinect: Personalized storefronts that sell, not just show ↗▲ 209Apr 22, 2026

  AI agents that sell every visitor on e-commerce sites — and represent the brand to every other agent.

Change history · 17 recorded

1. July 17, 2026
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2. July 5, 2026
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3. June 21, 2026
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4. June 17, 2026
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5. June 16, 2026
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6. June 13, 2026
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7. June 12, 2026
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8. June 7, 2026
   • YC partner updated08:00 PM
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9. June 5, 2026
   • Pitch updated07:00 PM
10. April 22, 2026
    • New launch posted: Kinect: E–Commerce stores that can finally sell12:08 AM