Kinect (Founding)
Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
April 19, 2026
Vertical
B2B
Company Info
Founding Year
2026
Market
B2B
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Coinvestors
YCombinator
Company Description

The product detail page is one of the last unchanged surfaces in commerce. Brands have spent years getting sophisticated at driving traffic there but nobody fixed what happens when shoppers arrive. Kinect is the AI shopping assistant layer for e-commerce. We plug into ecommerce stores and give agents live access to your catalog, inventory, and policies. A brand’s online sales rep that can answer all a customer’s questions, help them find the right products, convince them. The website itself adapts to the shopper’s context: it considers the ads the user clicked on, their searches, filters, scrolling behavior, chat context to all show the shopper what they need to see. We're building for human shoppers today and the AI agents that will shop for them tomorrow. Either way, the product page needs to get a lot smarter. That's Kinect – the product page finally does what it was supposed to do all along.

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