Kirana AI
Kirana AI is a YC Spring 2025 (P25) company. Based in New York, NY, USA. Team of 2.
About Kirana AI
Summary
Kirana AI builds an AI store manager for physical grocery retailers, starting with an on-premise GPU that monitors stores around the clock to detect theft, flag workplace safety issues, and improve customer service. Planned integrations with POS and ordering data will extend the system to automate inventory ordering, pricing, assortment decisions, and task delegation, replacing the day-to-day operational work currently handled by human store managers.
Go-to-market
Kirana AI targets independent and family-owned grocery store operators, entering the market through direct sales grounded in the founders' own multi-generational grocery store experience.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI manager for physical stores
Kirana AI is building the first full-stack AI store manager. With 100 years of family experience owning and operating grocery stores, we are starting there to prove our impact. Our first product utilizes an on-premise GPU that monitors the store 24/7, scans for theft, looks for workplace health and safety issues, and optimizes customer service. With future POS/ordering data integrations, our manager will automate many of the day-to-day tasks of running a store, such as ordering, pricing, assortment, and delegating.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Retail
- New York, NY, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Nicholas Sleeper
- Prateek Pinisetti
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