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Kunal Punera

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Founder at Bluebirds

Mountain View, California, United States

FoundedBluebirds · YC

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About

Kunal held leadership roles in AI at LinkedIn overseeing teams across Recruiter, Premium, and Learning products, and previously worked as a founding engineer at RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce). He co-founded Bento Labs in 2014 and holds a PhD in machine learning from the University of Texas at Austin, with prior research experience at Yahoo! on NLP.

Founder at BluebirdsYC W23

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Kunal went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Bluebirds's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Bluebirds's investors · 8

1984 Ventures Management, LlcSan Francisco · $750K – $1M checks · since 2023Lightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1M – $5M checksOnStartupsBostonPeterson Venture PartnersSalt Lake City · $5M – $25M checksPeterson VenturesSalt Lake City · $250K – $2.5M checksSequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $100K – $50M checksSoma CapitalSacramento · $100K – $300K checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023

Co-founders at Bluebirds

RPRohan Punamia
Rohan PunamiaFounder

Investments

Investor

BerryLiteLLM

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Kunal Punera?
Kunal held leadership roles in AI at LinkedIn overseeing teams across Recruiter, Premium, and Learning products, and previously worked as a founding engineer at RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce). He co-founded Bento Labs in 2014 and holds a PhD in machine learning from the University of Texas at Austin, with prior research experience at Yahoo! on NLP.
Where does Kunal Punera work?
Kunal Punera is Founder of Bluebirds.
What companies did Kunal Punera found?
Kunal Punera founded Bluebirds.
What companies has Kunal Punera invested in?
Investments tracked here include Berry, LiteLLM.

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