Raj Koneru at a glance
Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
Role | Founder and CEO of Kore.ai, since 2014 (Kore.ai) |
Earlier companies | Founder of Kony, sold to Temenos for $559M in 2019; co-CEO of Intelligroup; CEO of SeraNova |
Education | Master’s degree, BITS Pilani, India, 1991 (Pulse 2.0) |
Born | Around 1970: Intelligroup’s 1996 IPO prospectus gives his age as 26 (SEC) |
Based in | Florida, near Kore.ai’s Orlando headquarters |
Board | US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) |
Net worth | Not published; his stake in Kore.ai isn’t disclosed |
Public profiles | LinkedIn /in/rajkonerufl; X @rajkoneru |
Kore.ai CEO email address: how to reach Raj Koneru
Raj Koneru doesn’t publish an email address. His X bio, LinkedIn profile and Kore.ai biography list none (checked Nov 5, 2026). For press, Kore.ai’s inbox is press@kore.com (Kore.ai). LinkedIn, where he posts regularly about AI agents, is his most active public channel.
Channel | Address | Note |
|---|---|---|
His main channel; about 27,000 followers (Nov 5, 2026) | ||
X | Rarely used; about 3,200 followers. Some databases list a different person’s handle | |
Kore.ai, press | press@kore.com |
Kore.ai email address pattern
Kore.ai staff mostly use {first}.{last}@kore.com, according to LeadIQ (LeadIQ) and Clay (Clay); kore.com is the company’s original domain.
Format | Example (fictional name: Maya Chen) | Share of known addresses | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
{first}.{last}@kore.com | maya.chen@kore.com | 86% of kore.com addresses (LeadIQ); 81% (Prospeo); verified by Clay | Current, standard |
{first}.{last}@kore.ai | maya.chen@kore.ai | 74% of kore.ai addresses (LeadIQ) | Also in use; Kore.ai’s 2023 press contact used it |
{first}@kore.ai | maya@kore.ai | 23% of kore.ai addresses (LeadIQ) | Less common |
{f}.{last}@kore.com | m.chen@kore.com | 17% (Prospeo) | Less common |
{f}.{last}@kore.ai | m.chen@kore.ai | 93% (SignalHire) | SignalHire only; every other source disagrees |
Before emailing any pattern-based address, run it through a verifier: a bounce hurts deliverability for every later send. All Kore.ai patterns, domains and official inboxes are on the Kore.ai email format page.
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Career timeline
Date | Milestone | Source |
|---|---|---|
Oct 7, 2026 | Launches Autoloop, for keeping AI agents tuned in production | |
Jan 27, 2026 | Kore.ai raises a growth investment led by AllianceBernstein | |
Jan 30, 2024 | Kore.ai raises $150M led by FTV Capital, with NVIDIA | |
Aug 28, 2019 | Temenos agrees to buy Kony for $559M plus a $21M earn-out | |
Feb 18, 2016 | Kore releases its bot-based messaging platform | |
2014 | Founds Kore.ai, first called Kore | |
Mar 4, 2014 | Hands Kony’s CEO role to Tom Hogan and stays chairman | |
2007–2008 | Founds Kony, an app-development platform, in Orlando | |
May 22, 2002 | Leaves Intelligroup’s board, citing “disagreement with the strategic direction” | |
Oct 27, 2000 | Agrees to sell SeraNova, which he ran as CEO, to Silverline for about $99M in stock | |
May 24, 1999 | Becomes co-CEO and President of Intelligroup | |
Sep 1996 | Intelligroup goes public on Nasdaq; he owns 28.1% before the IPO | |
Mar 1994 | Sells Oxford Systems, which he co-founded in 1993, to Intelligroup | |
1991 | Master’s degree from BITS Pilani |
Three companies before Kore.ai
After BITS Pilani, Koneru worked as a software consultant. In 1993 he co-founded Oxford Systems, a systems integrator, and in 1994 sold it to Intelligroup, an IT consultancy in New Jersey (SEC). Intelligroup was founded in 1987 by Ashok Pandey, not by Koneru, as some bios suggest. Koneru owned 28.1% of it before its 1996 Nasdaq listing, at 26.
He rose to co-CEO in 1999 (SEC), then ran SeraNova, Intelligroup’s internet-services spin-off, which agreed in 2000 to sell itself to Silverline Technologies (SEC). He left Intelligroup’s board in 2002 over “disagreement with the strategic direction of the Company” (SEC).
In Orlando he then founded Kony, a platform for building mobile apps (SEC). He handed its CEO role to Tom Hogan in 2014 (KSL), and Temenos bought Kony in 2019 for $559 million (Willkie).
Building Kore.ai
“I founded Kore.ai in 2014 to create a conversational AI-first platform (well before even the conversational AI term was coined) for enterprises,” Koneru says (Pulse 2.0). Kore first shipped as a messaging app for work with built-in bots; Fortune called it “a new venture from serial entrepreneur Raj Koneru” (Fortune). He has put his own money in since the start, and by 2019 total funding had passed $45 million (MarTech Series). Growth investors followed, Vistara in 2019 (Pulse 2.0) and a Series C in 2021 (Kore.ai), and Kore.ai passed $100 million in ARR by 2024 (TechCrunch).
In his own words
“Building and deploying AI agents is no big deal. The question is, do they meet your goals 3-6-12 months into production.”
— Post on LinkedIn, October 7, 2026 (LinkedIn)
“The answer is architecture. The model owns the conversation. The runtime owns everything that can’t be undone.”
— Post on LinkedIn, October 16, 2026 (LinkedIn)
“Building agents is easy now, so companies end up with sprawl instead of value.”
— APAC News Network, September 25, 2026 (APAC News Network)
“I think people are jumping too fast at execution without putting in thought, into the what, why and how.”
— CX Today, February 10, 2026 (CX Today)
“The humans are always in charge and accountable, and have to be.”
— Times of India, February 22, 2026 (Times of India)
Kore.ai’s leadership
Person | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|
Raj Koneru | Founder and CEO | |
Prasanna Arikala | CTO and head of product; a member of the founding team | |
DK Sharma | President; joined as President and COO in 2023, formerly Citigroup’s international CIO | |
Uma Sandilya | Chief Commercial Officer since July 2026 | |
Peter Mullen | Chief Marketing Officer | |
Rajavardhan Nalluri | Chief Customer Operations Officer | |
Dr. Mukesh Aghi | Executive Chairman since September 2023, per Clearwater Analytics’ SEC filings |
Full company profile, including revenue and funding: Kore.ai in 2026: revenue, valuation, funding, CEO.
