YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Varun Kandula

Founder of Kinect, The AI-Native Commerce Stack

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Company

Varun Kandula is listed as a founder of Kinect. 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.

Founder traction evidence

Public posts and activity attributed directly to this founder.

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    When cavemen discovered fire:

    When cavemen discovered fire:

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    Kinect sells to every shopper: humans and agents.

    Kinect sells to every shopper: humans and agents. We’re solving a problem that’s been broken for the past 10 years. https://t.co/iYC0RKwDnF

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    Taco Bell dev team needs to be fired

    Taco Bell dev team needs to be fired

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    The development of imesaage agents feels oddly similar to model development - general models vs post trained.

    The development of imesaage agents feels oddly similar to model development - general models vs post trained. Will the everything app (poke, instinct, etc) win or will we end up with task / vertical specific agents (flip, soar, etc)

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    Holy bullish

    Holy bullish

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    Warm intros are low signal

    Warm intros are low signal

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    Hot take, eric glyman is gonna leave ramp and spin up his own lab

    Hot take, eric glyman is gonna leave ramp and spin up his own lab

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    There’s gotta be a better way to pay for parking tickets

    There’s gotta be a better way to pay for parking tickets