2x founder

Kunal Punera

Co-founder

Bluebirds· Winter 2023 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States

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2025Vice President of Engineering, Agentforce Sales· Salesforce

Founder · since 2014

Company

Salesforce

Role

Vice President of Engineering, Agentforce Sales

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Experience

Career

Salesforce
Vice President of Engineering, Agentforce Sales · 2025 – Present
2025
Bluebirds (YC W'23) (Acquired by Salesforce in Aug 2025)
Co-founder
Co-founder & CTO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2023 – 2025
2023
LinkedIn
Director Of Engineering · Sunnyvale · 2020 – 2023
2020
Google
Engineering Manager / Staff Software Engineer · Mountain View · 2016 – 2020
2016
Bento Labs
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2014 – 2016
2014
A Big Data start-up
Advisor · 2013 – 2015
2013
RelateIQ
Data Products Engineering · 2012 – 2014
2012
Yahoo!
Senior Research Scientist · 2007 – 2012
2007

Bio

Kunal has held leadership positions at LinkedIn and Google; most recently he was a Director of AI at LinkedIn where he ran AI teams for the Recruiter, Premium, and Learning products, accounting for many billions in revenue. In 2014, Kunal co-founded Bento Labs, and prior to that he was a founding engineer at RelateIQ (sold to Salesforce for ~$400M) where he built their entire ML stack. Kunal has a PhD in ML from Univ of Texas at Austin, and worked at Yahoo! Research on NLP and Generative Models.