Kinro YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Kinro went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 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 2026
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Parth AinampudiFounder
Corentin HugotFounder
Pierre-Alexandre KamiennyFounder

What Kinro does

Kinro helps companies sell insurance through AI assistants such as ChatGPT. We build AI sales agents that manage the end-to-end insurance sales process, from answering questions, personalized coverage explanations and quoting. These agents are continuously evaluated and improved through our proprietary platform, optimizing sales performance while remaining 100% compliant. Selling insurance requires strict regulatory compliance, deep carrier integrations, and extremely reliable answers. Platforms like OpenAI and Google remain general-purpose and are less likely to build the vertical infrastructure required for regulated industries. Today, Kinro serves brokers and direct-to-consumer carriers across the US and Europe. Insurance distribution is huge: insurers pay roughly $100B+ in commissions annually, and distributors spend $10B+ every year on advertising to acquire customers. Pierre-Alexandre led research improving Gemini for financial services at DeepMind. Parth led infrastructure for training and inference at Zoox. Corentin was the first employee in an insurance startup and worked closely with many insurance leaders.

Kinro's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Kinro, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kinro

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI sales agents for insurance

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

We build AI sales agents that handle the entire insurance sales process end to end. Our agents use AI like ChatGPT to answer questions, explain personalized coverage, and provide quotes. They integrate deeply with carriers and comply with strict insurance regulations. Our platform continuously measures performance and improves the agents while keeping them compliant.

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

We all live in San Francisco and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to top AI talent, insurance industry partners, and investors. It's a hub for both insurance technology and AI development, which suits our needs perfectly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kinro YC application?

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