Pujun Bhatnagar
Pujun Bhatnagar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kintsugi AI, an AI-native sales tax and indirect tax compliance platform that automates nexus tracking, tax calculation, filing, and remittance for internet businesses across more than 100 countries. Since co-founding Kintsugi in 2022, Pujun has grown the company into a category leader backed by General Catalyst and Vertex.
Before founding Kintsugi, Pujun studied at Harvard Business School and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science with a focus on AI from Stanford University, along with an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech. His technical background includes machine learning research later acquired by Microsoft and foundational to work now core to OpenAI, as well as engineering work at Meta on Facebook Stories. He has also lectured at MIT.
A Gold Medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad representing India, Pujun brings a rare combination of technical depth and entrepreneurial drive to building AI systems that solve real, high stakes problems for growing businesses.