Varun Kandula

Kinect | All-in-one revenue platform for AI-native brands

Founder

Kinect· Spring 2026 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2025Founder· Kinect

Founder · since 2025

Company

Kinect

Role

Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Kinect

The AI revenue platform for D2C brands

Spring 2026

Experience

Career

Kinect
Founder
Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Reevo
Builder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – 2026
2025
MongoDB
Engineering · New York City Metropolitan Area · 2024
2024
NextGen Consulting at Berkeley
President · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023
2023
Ford Motor Company
Engineering · Detroit Metropolitan Area · 2023
2023
Cruuz
Engineering · San Francisco Bay Area · 2022
2022

Bio

Co-Founder at Kinect. Previously led the Context Graph team at Reevo and worked as an engineer at MongoDB and Capital One. Advised Sephora on "Ask AI" tools. Built and scaled his own e-commerce brand to $10K in revenue. As President of NextGen Consulting, led engagements with leading retail brands and sourced $200K+ in contracted ARR across 10+ clients. Former national squash player and peaked at #23 in the US.