Kestral

We automate your entire product development lifecycle.

Y CombinatorSpring 2025ActiveB2BArtificial IntelligenceProductivityTeam Collaboration

What they do

Problem

Customer insights and feature requests are siloed across teams, causing misprioritized roadmaps, duplicated requests, and wasted product development effort.

Solution

Kestral is an AI-driven work management platform that aggregates customer feedback, prioritizes high-leverage product tasks, and closes the loop with customers across the product development lifecycle.

Who it's for

Product, sales, and customer success teams at B2B SaaS companies (especially mid-market to enterprise) use it to align on and execute customer-driven roadmaps.

Founders

Brian Kim

Founder

Co-founder and CEO - Building Kestral - the future of work in the AI era After studying Computer Engineering at USC, I was an early engineer at GoFundMe, started my own company in corporate sustainability, and most recently led AI Workflow initiatives at Asana. Let's talk about human/AI collaboration, for-profit for-good business models, and endurance sports (USA Nationals qualifying triathlete). Also rap in a band and like dancing at parties/weddings.

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Bernard Xie

Founder

Current founding CTO at Kestral, the AI native platform for work management. Previously at Asana, 2 time founding engineer (AllStripes: acquired by PicnicHealth (YC19), Terrastruct). On the side I golf, play the drums, and cook.

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