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.

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    When cavemen discovered fire:

    When cavemen discovered fire:

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    Holy bullish

    Holy bullish

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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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    Hardest part of every day gotta be deciding what to eat for breakfast lunch and dinner

    Hardest part of every day gotta be deciding what to eat for breakfast lunch and dinner

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    Limepass might be the most optimal subscription out there

    Limepass might be the most optimal subscription out there

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    what happens after i visit all the cities in conductor

    what happens after i visit all the cities in conductor

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    og's know how awesome this is – bullish and i don't even know what hes building

    og's know how awesome this is – bullish and i don't even know what hes building

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    “This is what agentic commerce should be”

    “This is what agentic commerce should be”