aVenture · Jun 2026
Company research profile summarizing founding year, headquarters, funding, and product description.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Kirana AI is a New York-based, founder-led AI store management startup building an on-premise, camera-connected assistant for independent grocery stores to detect theft and safety issues, surface stock alerts, and eventually automate ordering, pricing, assortment, and other back-office tasks.
Primary product
A full-stack AI store manager for physical grocery stores that runs on-premise GPU hardware and uses existing cameras for 24/7 theft detection, safety monitoring, out-of-stock alerts, and future POS/ordering automation.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI store management for grocery retail
Business model
subscription SaaS
hardware-enabled B2B software
Funding
Stage
Pre-Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Jul 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Jul 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Investors
Work & culture
Product & market
Pricing
Subscription SaaS; public third-party profiles indicate plans starting at $20/month.
Differentiators
- —On-premise GPU / edge deployment
- —24/7 camera-based theft and safety monitoring
- —Grocery-specific store-manager workflow
- —Future automation for ordering, pricing, assortment, and delegation
- —Founder domain experience in family grocery operations
Technology
on-premise GPU
computer vision
machine learning
existing camera systems
real-time alerts
POS integrations
Customers
independent grocery stores
local grocers
retail store owners
Competitors
SAI Group
Spacture AI
ShopperAI
Oxania
Marauder
Akuret AI Shelf Intelligence
Scale & contact
Latest news
Hiretop · Jun 2025
Independent write-up summarizing Kirana AI’s grocery-store AI manager, on-prem hardware approach, and operational focus.
LinkedIn / Y Combinator · May 2025
Launch announcement describing the product, target grocery-store use case, and the founders' background.
LinkedIn · May 2025
Prateek Pinisetti publicly announced the launch of Kirana AI and linked to the company website.
LinkedIn · May 2025
Nicholas Sleeper publicly announced the launch of Kirana AI and described the grocery-store AI manager.
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