Kinro builds AI sales agents for the insurance industry, automating the full end-to-end sales process from buyer qualification and personalized coverage explanations to real-time quoting, policy recom
Kinro builds AI sales agents for the insurance industry, automating the full end-to-end sales process from buyer qualification and personalized coverage explanations to real-time quoting, policy recommendations, and binding. Its agents are deployed across every customer-facing channel including insurers' own websites, partner platforms, and AI-native surfaces like ChatGPT and Gemini. Kinro's proprietary evaluation platform continuously improves agent performance through research-grade simulations and production data while keeping deployments fully compliant with insurance regulations. The company is a Y Combinator Spring 2026 batch company with $1M ARR and a team of 3.
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Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny
AI researcher with a PhD from Sorbonne University (co-completed with Meta AI / FAIR), publishing at ICML 2023 on symbolic regression and reinforcement learning. Joined Google DeepMind in January 2024 as a Research Scientist focused on improving Gemini for financial services, leaving in October 2025 to co-found Kinro. Leads product and AI research at Kinro.
LinkedInParth Ainampudi
Spent ~4 years at Zoox (Amazon's autonomous vehicle subsidiary) as a Software Engineer in Behavior ML (February 2021 – late 2025), working on decision-making and behavior planning using reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and MCTS for safety-critical autonomous systems. Prior to Zoox, worked at Samsung's Strategy and Innovation Center on robotics and conducted graduate research at UT Austin. Leads infrastructure, systems, and ML engineering at Kinro.
LinkedInCorentin Hugot
First employee at Sharelock, a profitable insurtech working with major carriers and brokers, where he built insurance products and MGA risk workflows and scaled team operations. Also co-founded Finwize (an AI financial planning startup) and briefly joined Finvest in San Francisco. Handles insurance operations, partnerships, and go-to-market at Kinro.
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