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Kinta AI
AI manufacturing digitization platform
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Enterprise
- Manufacturing
- SaaS
- Automation
- Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To unlock the potential of manufacturing facilities so they can get the most out of their valuable materials, machines, and skilled labor.
Our take
Scheduling errors in manufacturing are costly, but account for nearly half of all late orders. In part, this can be chalked up to the increasing complexity of operations that manual scheduling, excel spreadsheets, and other traditional tools struggle to accommodate. Kinta AI is hoping to revolutionize this. The company’s AI scheduling platform helps manufacturers optimize resources and develop smarter scheduling, tailored to their factories, in a fraction of the time legacy tools would need.
Whilst it seems something of a no-brainer, the traditional manufacturing industry at large has only just begun to warm to AI scheduling tools. Increasing automation has driven up scheduling complexity, and in combination with recent supply chain disruptions, manufacturers are now pouring more investment into digital transformation to shore up their production lines.
So whilst Kinta AI is relatively young, it’s become established in good time to ride the wave of growing market demand. It faces competition from startup rivals like Plataine, and the AI scheduling arm of software giant AVEVA (although this remains relatively specialist for now). Nevertheless, a strong roster of enterprise manufacturer customers like Stanley Black & Decker, BASF, and Diebold Nixdorf has laid down a strong foundation for Kinta AI's future growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible schedules
- Commuter benefits
- Equity 0.05%
- Health insurance, company pays 100% employee premium, 50% dependent premium
- Dental insurance, company pays 100% employee premium, 50% dependent premium
- Vision insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending account
- 401(k) with 5% employer match
- Holidays plus 20 business days of vacation a year
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2021
$5.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $5.5m
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Leadership
Steven Glinert
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a Master's in Economics, before working in data science at Bread Finance and Rose Inc., and then quantitative analysis at Snow Ventures and Cerebellum Capital. Ultimately landed an AI Engineer role at Pivotus Ventures.