Knit
Techstars '19Suffolk, US · Founded 2022 · 141 employees on LinkedIn · 12 known investors
Knit is an AI-driven research agency that delivers consumer insights and research methodology through a researcher-led approach, enabling insights teams to conduct studies in a week or less rather than months.
Also known as goknit.com · Knit
Founders & leadership
Knit was founded in 2022 by Aneesh Dhawan.

Investors · 12
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$16.1M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2024–2025
- $16.1MSeries AJul 2025 · 2 sourcesSource ↗
- Undisclosed amountseed funding roundMay 2024
Endiya Partners (lead), Axilor Ventures
Source ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Knit operates as an AI-native market research agency serving enterprise consumer insights teams. It combines forward-deployed human researchers with automated research agents that carry a study through the full workflow: scoping and context collection, survey creation, sampling and fielding, analysis, and reporting. A distinguishing element of its approach is combining quantitative survey data with video-based qualitative input, including AI-moderated video questions, within a single study.
Each engagement begins with a scoping flow capturing the client's objectives, audience, and business context, from which the system generates a research brief defining audience, objectives, hypotheses, and deliverable expectations. Clients can upload prior research, brand guidelines, and example reports into a Research Context Library that informs subsequent outputs. AI drafts a questionnaire that a dedicated researcher finalizes with the client in a collaborative document editor, after which the survey can be programmed and launched the following day. Following fielding, the platform analyzes quant and qual data together against a generated analysis plan, producing key cuts, charts, themes, sub-themes, and video summaries with citations, and assembles a structured, branded report exportable to PowerPoint or Google Slides.
Business model
Knit sells research projects and platform-delivered studies to enterprise insights teams, positioning its pricing below traditional research agencies while providing researcher support alongside automated execution.
Traction
The website features case studies with Timex (validating a multi-season product roadmap in six weeks), Mars Wrigley, and NASCAR, plus testimonials from research leaders at Amazon Devices and other consumer brands, and cites access to a global panel of more than 65 million vetted respondents.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Knit positions itself between traditional research agencies and do-it-yourself research tools, claiming agency-level quality with platform speed and lower cost, and less manual work than self-serve tools.
Knit describes its approach as "Researcher-Driven AI": researchers ground the AI in research methodology and client business context rather than delivering unsupervised AI outputs, and studies combine quantitative and video-based qualitative methods in one project with cited, sourced insights.
Technology
The offering pairs AI agents with human researchers. AI components generate research briefs, draft mixed-method questionnaires including qualitative video and AI-moderated video questions, build analysis plans, analyze quantitative and qualitative data jointly to surface themes and sub-themes with source citations, and produce structured branded reports. A Research Context Library retains client context, past studies, and methodologies so later projects build on earlier ones.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales through website demo requests, supported by published customer case studies and testimonials from brand-side insights leaders.
Enterprise consumer insights, innovation, and UX research teams at large consumer brands. Named or quoted customers include Timex, Mars Wrigley, NASCAR, and Amazon Devices (Apps and Games).
Geography
Serves clients via a global respondent panel; company headquarters listed in Suffolk, United States.
Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 2
by search overlapCompanies competing with Knit for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- Knitgoknit.com · web
1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Knit do?
- Knit is an AI-native consumer research agency pairing embedded researchers with AI agents to run combined quant and qual studies.
- Who founded Knit?
- Knit was founded by Aneesh Dhawan in 2022.
- Who are Knit's investors?
- Knit's investors include Atland Ventures, Bread And Butter Ventures, Llc, Brighter Capital, Endiya Partners, GFT Ventures, Techstars, Axilor Ventures, Massive and 4 more.
- How much funding has Knit raised?
- Knit has disclosed $16.1M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Knit headquartered?
- Knit is headquartered in Suffolk, US.







