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Kanava AI

Spring 2025 · Inactive

Your First AI Sales Hire for Wholesale Distributors

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

Distributors face a shrinking workforce and rising call volume. Kanava AI builds voice-based agents that act like junior sales reps — starting with routine inbound calls, stock and price checks, field note logging, and CRM updates using live ERP data. As the system learns from top reps and real workflows, it levels up: managing full sales calls, surfacing upsells, coaching teams, and reactivating dormant accounts. We help distributors scale sales output without adding headcount — by automating the work reps shouldn’t be doing in the first place.

Founders

  • Smit DagliFounder

    Automating sales for distributors using agents. Prev built evals for agents @Observe, backend engineering at Abnormal Security, ChestnutFi, Salesforce

  • Vikhyath MondretiFounder

    Interested in voice agents and selling software to traditional businesses. Founder at Kanava AI.