# Niji Sabharwal

> Niranjan “Niji” Sabharwal is the cofounder and executive board chair of AgentSync, the Denver software company he started with his wife, CTO Jenn Knight, after his work on licensing remediation at Zenefits exposed a sprawling insurance-distribution problem. A former LinkedIn sales-operations leader, Sabharwal helped turn a real-time license-checking idea into a cloud platform for producer onboarding, compliance, and distribution management, then moved from CEO to executive chair in October 2025.

- **Role:** Cofounder and Executive Board Chair at AgentSync
- **Organizations:** AgentSync, Zenefits, LinkedIn, Hewlett-Packard
- **From:** San Francisco, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, École Bilingue de Berkeley
- **Known for:** Cofounded AgentSync and led it from 2018 through its October 2025 CEO transition., Built AgentSync from a license-checking use case into a distribution-channel management platform used by carriers, agencies, and MGAs., Led the company through a $75 million Series B in 2021 at a reported $1.2 billion valuation.

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Graduated from UC Santa Barbara during the recession and worked at a stamp and engraving shop in Berkeley before entering technology sales.
- **circa 2010-2014** — Joined LinkedIn as an early sales development representative, moved into sales operations, and spent part of his tenure in Dublin supporting EMEA operations.
- **circa 2014-2018** — Led sales strategy and operations at Zenefits and later helped lead producer licensing and broker-compliance remediation.
- **2016** — Served as product manager for Licensing+, a Salesforce application for checking insurance-license compliance.
- **2018** — Cofounded AgentSync with Jenn Knight in San Francisco.
- **2020** — Moved AgentSync’s headquarters to Denver and raised the company’s first institutional capital after an extended bootstrapped period.
- **2021** — AgentSync raised a $75 million Series B at a reported $1.2 billion valuation.
- **2025** — Transitioned from CEO to executive chair of AgentSync’s board; David Samuels became CEO on October 14.

## Achievements

- Cofounded AgentSync and led it from 2018 through its October 2025 CEO transition.
- Built AgentSync from a license-checking use case into a distribution-channel management platform used by carriers, agencies, and MGAs.
- Led the company through a $75 million Series B in 2021 at a reported $1.2 billion valuation.
- Helped grow LinkedIn’s sales-development organization from five people to more than 200 across nine global offices, according to his podcast account.
- Was named with Jenn Knight as a 2022 ColoradoBiz Top Entrepreneur finalist.
- Was recognized by Operator Collective in a 2023 AAPI Month feature on contributors to the technology ecosystem.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Moved from AgentSync CEO to executive chair of the board as David Samuels became CEO.
- **2025-11** — Published an AgentSync article on the future of insurance-producer recruiting.

## Links

- Website: https://agentsync.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akaniji
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/agentsync
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/agentsync/

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Last updated: 2026-08-25