YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Corentin Hugot

Founder of Kinro, Autonomous insurance brokerage for small businesses

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Company

Corentin Hugot is listed as a founder of Kinro. We are building the first autonomous insurance brokerage. We hit $1M in annual revenue building insurance workflows for brokers. Then we realized the bigger opportunity was replacing them. In the US, there are 36 million SMBs, and 77% are underinsured because distribution is broken. Brokers can’t serve low-premium SMBs profitably: a $2K policy takes almost as much work as a $20K one. Kinro changes that. Our AI agents handle the full broker workflow 24/7, from finding prospects to binding policies. In 3 weeks, we got licensed in 24 states and appointed by 10 carriers. Last week, our agents autonomously bound 9 policies. Before Kinro, Pierre was an AI researcher at DeepMind. Corentin was Chief Insurance Officer at an insurtech. Parth built ML systems at Zoox.

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    I applied to @ycombinator 5 times. Growing up, my dad kept telling me that perseverance was the most important quality. I never forgot i...

    I applied to @ycombinator 5 times. Growing up, my dad kept telling me that perseverance was the most important quality. I never forgot it. Now I am in and with the team at @kinroai we are going at light speed.

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    Excited to share that @kinroai is now live on @ycombinator! We’re building the first compliant AI sales agents for the insurance indust...

    Excited to share that @kinroai is now live on @ycombinator! We’re building the first compliant AI sales agents for the insurance industry, with the goal of making the insurance buying experience better for everyone. Give us some love!...

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    Corentin Hugot (@corentin_hgt) on X

    I’m hiring ops to build the future of insurance distribution: • Growth hacker → CAC hacks at scale • Licensed agents → quote, bind, compliance, trust • World-class ops manager → turn chaos into scalable systems DM me.