Kinect

Agentic Storefronts for E-Commerce Brands

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveB2B

What they do

Problem

E-commerce brands lose sales because static storefronts can’t personalize guidance, address objections, or recommend the right products to each shopper in real time.

Solution

Kinect provides AI sales agents embedded on a brand’s site that ingest brand and catalog data to run personalized conversations and dynamically adapt product pages and recommendations.

Who it's for

E-commerce brands and online retailers that want to increase conversion and improve the shopping experience.

Founders

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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