# Amit Kulkarni

> Amit Kulkarni is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Heymarket, which helps businesses manage customer conversations in shared inboxes. He previously co-founded Manymoon, a social productivity application acquired by Salesforce in February 2011. His public writing and product decisions emphasize simplicity, integrations, customer feedback and collaboration.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Heymarket
- **Organizations:** Heymarket, Manymoon, Salesforce, LiteScape, Siemens
- **Education:** BS in Electrical Engineering; minor in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- **Known for:** Co-founded Manymoon, acquired by Salesforce in February 2011., Reported more than 1,000 new business signups each week for Manymoon in May 2010., Co-founded Heymarket, whose company biography describes serving thousands of businesses.

## Career timeline

- **1997–2001** — Systems engineer at Siemens.
- **2001–2004** — Product manager at Siemens.
- **2004–2008** — Worked in product management at LiteScape.
- **2008–2011** — Co-founder and CEO of Manymoon.
- **2010** — Presented Manymoon at Google I/O and wrote about its Google Apps Marketplace experience.
- **2011** — Salesforce acquired Manymoon in February; Kulkarni became a Salesforce vice president.
- **2011–2013** — Vice president at Salesforce.
- **2015–present** — Co-founder and CEO of Heymarket.
- **2017** — Discussed how customer requests to share authentication tokens led Heymarket to build shared inboxes.
- **2021** — Spoke at INBOUND on texting and email for sales.
- **2023** — Shared product and customer-development advice with Illinois students visiting Silicon Valley.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Manymoon, acquired by Salesforce in February 2011.
- Reported more than 1,000 new business signups each week for Manymoon in May 2010.
- Co-founded Heymarket, whose company biography describes serving thousands of businesses.
- Helped develop Heymarket from individual business texting into shared team inboxes.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Heymarket described testing its AI agents on its own customer support traffic, with performance reviews on Mondays and Thursdays.
- **2026-03** — Heymarket announced email support within its Salesforce and HubSpot SMS workflows on March 5.
- **2025-01** — Kulkarni participated in a University of Illinois Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship Workshop visit at Heymarket.

## Links

- Website: https://www.heymarket.com/author/amit-kulkarni/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitkulkarni
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/akulkarni

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Last updated: 2026-10-23