Salil Punalekar

Co-Founder @ Winter I Board Member I Investor I Ex-Shift, Cognizant, ANSR

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor & Advisory Board Member
Jul 2018
Skit.ai is an omnichannel AI platform purpose-built for debt collections. We help creditors and collection agencies automate and scale consumer conversations across the collections lifecycle, from early-stage delinquency to advanced recovery and pre-legal workflows. Powered by generative AI, Skit.ai engages consumers across voice, SMS, email, and chat, enabling outreach in the channels and languages consumers prefer. The platform can handle high-volume, routine collection interactions end to end—payment reminders, right-party verification, promise-to-pay capture, payment processing, dispute intake, and follow-ups, while routing sensitive or complex situations to human agents with full context so consumers don’t have to repeat themselves. Skit.ai is designed to improve recovery outcomes while reducing operational costs and manual effort. Teams get visibility into performance across channels, outcomes, and key operational metrics, enabling faster iteration and better control over consumer experience. Built-in compliance safeguards help support federal and state requirements across channels, including contact policies, consent and opt-outs, and audit-ready records. Trusted by creditors, agencies, and financial institutions, Skit.ai enables faster deployments, lower cost-to-collect, and more consistent consumer experiences, at scale.
Investor
May 2018
At GreyOrange, were shaping the future of warehouse orchestration and store inventory management through our flagship solutions: - GreyMatter: Our hyper-intelligent warehouse orchestration platform that optimizes automation, inventory and workforce management in real time - gStore: Intuitive store inventory management software ensuring optimal product availability while enhancing the worker and customer experiences What sets us apart is our ability to provide real-time visibility across all omnichannel nodes while seamlessly orchestrating robotic agents, people, inventory and systems. Our customers reduce their cost per unit, eliminate lost inventory, enhance worker productivity and safety, and elevate in-store experiences. As a vendor-agnostic solution compatible with diverse automation hardware through our Certified Ranger Network, we deliver rapid, significant results through our global Certified Partner Network of system integrators. Founded in 2012 | Headquartered in Atlanta with a global presence across the Americas, Europe and Asia
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Nov 2017
Locus is a leading-edge technology company solving the most challenging global logistics and supply chain problems. Locus order-to-delivery dispatch management platform helps enterprises transform their logistics operations into growth centers through advanced optimization algorithms and intuitive workflow automation that equip businesses with the tools needed to maximize efficiency while delighting customers. Founded in 2015 and backed by GIC Singapore, Qualcomm Ventures, Tiger Global, and Falcon Edge, Locus has helped a wide range of customers globally across industries– including Unilever, Nestle, Bukalapak, The Tata Group, BlueDart, and more – execute 1 billion+ deliveries across 30+ countries across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, ANZ, and the Indian subcontinent. Its technology has also helped save $280 million+ in transit costs, offsetting 70 million kilograms in CO2 emissions while maintaining a 99.5% SLA adherence ratio. The company powers deliveries across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, ANZ, and the Indian Subcontinent. Visit www.locus.sh to know more!
Investor
Nov 2015
Session AI is the pioneer of In-Session Marketing, the critical capability that leading online retailers need to convert site visitors in a privacy-first world. Using patented machine learning, Session AI predicts purchase intent in five clicks, enabling online retailers to provide each visitor with the right offer in real-time without the need for personally identifiable information or third-party cookies. Learn more about the future of ecommerce marketing at www.sessionai.com.
Investor
Nov 2015
ZineOne is now Session AI. Learn more about us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/session-ai/ and www.sessionai.com.
Investor & Board Member
Jan 2015
Scienaptic is on a mission to increase credit availability by transforming technology used in credit decisioning. Over 150 years of credit experience is embedded in Scienaptic's AI native credit decision platform. Our clients across banks, credit unions, fintech, and other lenders use the platform to constantly improve the quality of underwriting decisions. This enables them to say ‘yes’ to borrowers more often and faster.
Board Member
Jan 2015
Scienaptic is on a mission to increase credit availability by transforming technology used in credit decisioning. Over 150 years of credit experience is embedded in Scienaptic's AI native credit decision platform. Our clients across banks, credit unions, fintech, and other lenders use the platform to constantly improve the quality of underwriting decisions. This enables them to say ‘yes’ to borrowers more often and faster.
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2025
Co-Founder
Aug 2025
WINTER is an AI-led consulting and technology company built to solve the world’s most complex business problems faster, smarter, and at scale
Co-Founder
Aug 2025
Stealth AI Startup is a private community for founders, researchers, and engineers building next-generation AI companies before public launch. Founders tag themselves here to: 🔹 Gain credibility while working in stealth 🔹 Connect discreetly with other AI founders 🔹 Receive inbound interest from early-stage VCs 🔹 Join curated founder-only circles & discussions 🔹 Access hiring pipelines for early team building If youre building an AI startup in stealth, add your profile to the community and tag yourself to this page. Your stealth journey deserves visibility — without revealing your idea. Join the world’s largest AI stealth founder network.
2018
Operating Partner
Dec 2018
Investor & Advisory Board Member
Jul 2018
Skit.ai is an omnichannel AI platform purpose-built for debt collections. We help creditors and collection agencies automate and scale consumer conversations across the collections lifecycle, from early-stage delinquency to advanced recovery and pre-legal workflows. Powered by generative AI, Skit.ai engages consumers across voice, SMS, email, and chat, enabling outreach in the channels and languages consumers prefer. The platform can handle high-volume, routine collection interactions end to end—payment reminders, right-party verification, promise-to-pay capture, payment processing, dispute intake, and follow-ups, while routing sensitive or complex situations to human agents with full context so consumers don’t have to repeat themselves. Skit.ai is designed to improve recovery outcomes while reducing operational costs and manual effort. Teams get visibility into performance across channels, outcomes, and key operational metrics, enabling faster iteration and better control over consumer experience. Built-in compliance safeguards help support federal and state requirements across channels, including contact policies, consent and opt-outs, and audit-ready records. Trusted by creditors, agencies, and financial institutions, Skit.ai enables faster deployments, lower cost-to-collect, and more consistent consumer experiences, at scale.
Investor
May 2018
At GreyOrange, were shaping the future of warehouse orchestration and store inventory management through our flagship solutions: - GreyMatter: Our hyper-intelligent warehouse orchestration platform that optimizes automation, inventory and workforce management in real time - gStore: Intuitive store inventory management software ensuring optimal product availability while enhancing the worker and customer experiences What sets us apart is our ability to provide real-time visibility across all omnichannel nodes while seamlessly orchestrating robotic agents, people, inventory and systems. Our customers reduce their cost per unit, eliminate lost inventory, enhance worker productivity and safety, and elevate in-store experiences. As a vendor-agnostic solution compatible with diverse automation hardware through our Certified Ranger Network, we deliver rapid, significant results through our global Certified Partner Network of system integrators. Founded in 2012 | Headquartered in Atlanta with a global presence across the Americas, Europe and Asia
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