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- Kunal PuneraFounder · BluebirdsW23B2B · San Francisco
- Rohan Punamia@RohanPunamiaFounder · BluebirdsW23B2B · San Francisco
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Kunal PuneraBluebirdsFounderWinter 2023B2BSan Francisco, United States6—Rohan PunamiaBluebirdsFounderWinter 2023B2BSan Francisco, United States6https://x.com/RohanPunamia
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Kunal Punera
Founder·Bluebirds
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder· not in title
Team size6
BatchWinter 2023
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusAcquired
StageEarly
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.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
CredentialsPhD
DisciplineResearcherKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
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