Kratik Agrawal and Varun Kandula are the Co-Founders of Kinect (YC P26), an AI-powered conversational commerce platform turning static e-commerce storefronts into personalized, intelligent shopping experiences.

Kratik studied Computer Science at UCLA and previously worked at Google Commerce, Anduril, and Verkada, while Varun served as a Software Engineer at MongoDB and Capital One and was President of NextGen Consulting, sourcing $200k+ in contracted ARR across 10+ brands.

Both co-founders previously co-led conversational intelligence at Reevo, where they built AI systems to extract buyer intent from dialogue and help enterprise teams close deals faster, directly inspiring Kinect's core technology.

Kratik led Conversational Intelligence at Reevo and brings deep expertise in AI-driven commerce, while Varun's consulting work with Sephora and Ralph Lauren gave him firsthand insight into the conversion and personalization challenges facing D2C brands.

Kinect's early design partners are already seeing 20% conversion lifts and 30% ROAS improvements, with some customers reporting up to 3x conversion rates and a 15% increase in average order value.