Kanava AI YC Application

Spring 2025Inactive

Kanava AI went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Spring 2025
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2025

Founders

Smit DagliFounder
Vikhyath MondretiFounder

What Kanava AI does

Distributors face a shrinking workforce and rising call volume. Kanava AI builds voice-based agents that act like junior sales reps - starting with routine inbound calls, stock and price checks, field note logging, and CRM updates using live ERP data. As the system learns from top reps and real workflows, it levels up: managing full sales calls, surfacing upsells, coaching teams, and reactivating dormant accounts. We help distributors scale sales output without adding headcount - by automating the work reps shouldn’t be doing in the first place.

Kanava AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Kanava AI, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kanava AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Your First AI Sales Hire for Wholesale Distributors

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build voice-based AI agents that act like junior sales reps for wholesale distributors. Our agents handle routine inbound calls, answer stock and price inquiries, log field notes, and update CRM using live ERP data. Over time, the AI learns from top reps and actual sales workflows to manage entire sales calls, identify upsell opportunities, coach teams, and reactivate dormant accounts. Our goal is to help distributors scale sales output without adding headcount by automating repetitive sales tasks.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the B2B tech ecosystem we engage with is centered. Staying here keeps us close to potential partners and customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kanava AI YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Kanava AI's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Kanava AI would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.