Pujun Bhatnagar is Co-Founder and CEO of Kintsugi, an AI-powered sales tax automation platform serving e-commerce and SaaS businesses globally. He leads the company's mission to simplify tax compliance across 171 countries.

Pujun earned his MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and worked as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Meta. He comes from a family of tax professionals, with both his father and grandfather working in taxation their entire careers.

Before writing any code, Pujun spent a year and a half manually processing sales tax for companies to deeply understand pain points. He conducted 300-500 customer interviews and explored 15 different ideas before landing on Kintsugi's final product.

Kintsugi raised $18M from Vertex at a $150M valuation in April 2025, doubling its valuation in six months. The company serves 2,400 customers with a 0.1% churn rate and maintains 93% profit margins.

Kintsugi reduces tax preparation time by 75% and compliance costs by 50% for businesses. The platform processes 5.5 million transactions valued at $7.7 billion and operates across more than 70 countries with 95 employees.