Parth Ainampudi

Parth Ainampudi (Parthasarathi Ainampudi) is Co-Founder and CTO at Kinro.ai (YC P26), building compliant AI sales agents that enable insurance brokers and direct-to-consumer carriers to sell across platforms like ChatGPT, websites, and calls.
Parth earned his degree from The University of Texas at Austin and built deep expertise in ML infrastructure and autonomous systems, leading training and inference infrastructure at Zoox, Amazon's self-driving vehicle company, and previously serving as a Robotics Software Engineer at Samsung and as a research intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.
Parth brings rare full-stack technical depth spanning infrastructure, AI research, security, data, and system design, with hands-on experience building reinforcement learning systems for safety-critical autonomous vehicles.
Kinro is a Y Combinator P26 company backed by YC and Crystal Venture Partners, serving brokers and D2C carriers across the US and Europe with AI agents that automate the full insurance sales flow from qualification and quoting to binding.
Kinro is targeting $10M ARR with a lean team, operating in the $1T P&C insurance market where insurers pay over $100B in commissions annually, positioning AI-native distribution as the next major channel.