For developers building AI agents that need to browse the web, Kernel is cloud browser infrastructure that runs stealth browser profiles so agents can navigate sites without getting blocked by bot detection.
Presence & Market Position
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Kernel builds browser infrastructure for AI agents: cloud browsers that spin up in milliseconds, with live-view and replay for visibility and a permissioning layer that lets an agent act with limited authority instead of a shared password. That framing, infrastructure for other builders' agents rather than an end-user product, carries through its public presence: technical dinner series and fireside chats on computer-use agents co-hosted with players like Anthropic and Browser Use, and tutorials pairing its managed-auth and session handling with sandboxed agent runtimes. The conversation is dense and practitioner-heavy rather than broad, centered on technical leaders comparing session and authentication patterns, with a user base it describes as growing past several thousand teams.
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Business Profile
Kernel is a 2025-founded, twenty-person company built by CEO Catherine Jue, who saw agent-infrastructure gaps first-hand running engineering at Cash App, and CTO Rafael Garcia, previously a co-founder of the identity platform Clever. It raised a $22M Series A in October 2025 led by Accel, which framed the founding team's mix of scaled-engineering and identity-security experience as the reason to back a small team building infrastructure rather than an application. Kernel remains independent and early in its life as a company, with headcount and product surface still concentrated around that founding thesis.
Agent Readiness
Measures how easily your agents can build on it — API, MCP, CLI, SDK, docs depth. Methodology →
Kernel ships a full agent-facing surface: a CLI that auto-configures its MCP server across seven AI development tools including Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and Windsurf, alongside an SDK and API for programmatic browser sessions. Authentication is built as a permissioning layer an agent can be granted rather than a shared credential, with session replay and live-view built in for oversight of what an agent does in the browser.
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