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Avent

Summer 2025 · Active

AI agents for industrial commerce

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

Avent helps manufacturers and industrial distributors run quoting and order entry on autopilot. Our AI agents manage sales inboxes, build quotes from past pricing and tribal knowledge, and keep records up to date in existing ERPs.

Founders

  • Abhay KalraFounder

    Abhay is the Founder and CEO of Avent. Abhay studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where he conducted computer vision research for defect detection in manufacturing. Before Avent, Abhay was an operator in the manufacturing and industrial distribution space.