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Closera

closera.com

Closera provides AI shopping agents that help ecommerce stores increase conversion and average order value.

HQNew York City, New York, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 5d ago
Specialization
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Business
Software Applications
Market
Retail
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Customers
Enterprisesand 1 more customers values
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Commercial Company
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Software Applications
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Market
Retail
Customers
Enterprises, Small Businesses
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About

Closera builds an AI shopping agent for online stores and ecommerce brands seeking better conversion and order values. Its differentiator is an agent-led shopping experience that the company says can increase conversion by 600%, average order value by 36%, and order size by 12%.

Market

Closera competes in the AI-powered conversational commerce and ecommerce product-discovery market, positioning itself as a 24/7 AI sales associate rather than only a support chatbot or search widget. Its differentiation is the combination of a real-time Customer Graph, brand-specific product and voice training, personalized recommendations and upselling, and a proprietary safety layer designed to keep responses accurate and on-brand.

Target Customers

Closera primarily targets ecommerce stores, brands, and retailers that want an always-on digital sales associate for product discovery, recommendations, upselling, and conversion. The likely buyers are ecommerce, digital merchandising, marketing, or customer-experience leaders; public sources do not specify a minimum company size.

At a Glance

Problem

Online stores often lose shoppers between browsing and buying, while also missing opportunities to increase basket size through relevant recommendations and upsells. Closera targets this conversion and merchandising gap: its main use case is acting as a 24/7 sales associate that guides product discovery, recommends products and bundles, and helps turn shopper intent into completed purchases. The economics are directly tied to ecommerce performance, with Closera advertising a 600% increase in conversion, a 36% increase in average order value, and a 12% increase in order size.

Product / Service

Closera is an AI personal shopping agent for ecommerce stores. The agent is customized to a store's products and brand voice, uses a real-time customer graph to understand each shopper, and delivers personalized recommendations, dynamic bundles, guided discovery, and context-sensitive upsells. It is positioned as a sales layer that works continuously across the online store rather than as a conventional static recommendation widget.

The company also describes safeguards through its Guardian Protocol, which governs responses in real time so the agent remains accurate, trustworthy, and on brand. Stores can get started through a demo, and the benefit is a more personalized shopping experience intended to improve conversion, average order value, and order size without requiring human sales coverage around the clock.

Market

Closera competes in the emerging AI shopping-agent category for ecommerce, adjacent to personalization, product discovery, merchandising, and conversion-optimization software. The available evidence does not identify named direct competitors, so the clearest competitive distinction is its positioning as a brand-trained, conversational sales associate with persistent shopper context rather than merely a product-recommendation engine.

The company was founded in 2025, is an active Y Combinator Summer 2025 company, and is listed with a two-person team. Its website advertises material conversion and basket-size improvements, while PitchBook reports $500,000 raised. The available evidence does not disclose revenue, customer count, or a confirmed commercial scale, so Closera appears to be an early-stage company with reported funding and product-performance claims rather than publicly documented revenue traction.

Founders & Leadership

Anmol TukrelFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Chinmay PatelFounder
Co-Founder

Funding History

2025-07
Pre-Seed$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-07-29other
Closera listed as an active YC S2025 generative-AI startup

Y Combinator’s generative-AI directory lists Closera as an active S2025 company with two employees in New York City. Its official company profile describes the product as an AI shopping agent for ecommerce stores.

2025-08-14product_launch
Closera Launches: Harvey for Commercial Real Estate

A FounderJournal announcement presented Closera as “Harvey for Commercial Real Estate.” Available company-directory information describes the initial product as generating valuation documents, verifying listings, and producing offering memorandums and brochures for commercial real estate.

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Business Model

Closera operates as a B2B SaaS company selling its AI shopping-agent software to ecommerce stores and brands through a demo-led sales process. Public sources reviewed did not disclose specific subscription prices, usage fees, or revenue-sharing terms.

Products

Closera AI Shopping Agent for ecommerce and online storesCustomer Graph personalization layer24/7 AI Sales Associate with personalized recommendations and messagingGuardian Protocol safety and brand-governance layer

Tech Stack

Artificial intelligence / generative AI agentsReal-time customer graph for shopper understanding and personalizationPersonalized product-recommendation and messaging engineProprietary real-time AI safety and brand-governance system (Guardian Protocol)Brand and product knowledge training

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