Kairos (YC X25) — Specialized AI for critical industries
Kairos closes the last-mile reliability gap in AI deployments. We bring frontier techniques to companies in critical industries, deploying specialized agents that encode operator expertise and reliably automate their most manual workflows.
Kairos is a Y Combinator company in the Spring 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Specialized AI for Critical Industries. The founder listed is Shivum Pandove (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 28, 2025).
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Kairos closes the last-mile reliability gap in AI deployments.
We bring frontier techniques to companies in critical industries, deploying specialized agents that encode operator expertise and reliably automate their most manual workflows.
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Shivum Pandove
Founder
Kairos | Prev. ML/CS at Carnegie Mellon, Scaled 3+ startups as a SWE/PM from 0 -> 1, and conducted DL research across comp. bio labs
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