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Avent

3 open
3+ employees

AI agents for industrial commerce

YC S25

About the Company

Avent helps manufacturers and distributors run quoting and order entry on autopilot.

We’re turning high-touch industrial sales into a marketplace, replacing middlemen with agents. Our goal is to become the port through which every machine and part used in factories around the world passes, embedding ourselves into the lifecycle of every physical good.

Tech Stack

Avent centralizes communication across email, phone, and fax, turning messy, high-touch sales into structured data. Day to day is improving semantic search, multi-ERP data normalization, and real-time fulfillment routing — matching vague human requests like “that brass connector thing” to exact parts, inventory, and pricing across a live network of industrial distributors.

Stack: TypeScript, Next.js, C#

Founders

Abhay Kalra
Abhay Kalra

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.

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