aid: big-sur-ai
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/big-sur-ai.png
name: Big Sur Ai
description: >-
  Big Sur AI is an AI-powered SaaS platform for e-commerce merchants, founded in
  2023 by Vinod Ramachandran (CEO) and Arnaud Weber (CTO). Its flagship product is
  an AI Sales Agent that delivers an assisted, conversational shopping experience to
  online shoppers, guiding product discovery and answering questions in real time to
  increase merchant conversion rates and average order sizes. The company raised a
  $6.9M seed round in March 2024 led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Guru Chahal
  as the lead partner. This profile was surfaced from the Lightspeed portfolio and
  enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/big-sur-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-founded: '2023'
x-founders:
- Vinod Ramachandran
- Arnaud Weber
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- E-Commerce
- Conversational AI
- Shopping Assistant
- Retail Technology
- SaaS
- Sales Agent
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/big-sur-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://bigsur.ai
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence