Two operators, one embedded team.

Velix Group is Robin and Shanti. When you engage us, you get us: in your Slack, in your data, in the rooms that matter.

Shanti Punukollu, Managing Partner at Velix Group
Shanti Punukollu
Managing Partner

Shanti's career spans two worlds that rarely talk to each other: the engineering discipline of Microsoft and Amazon, and the scrappiness of founding her own startup. At Velix Group, she brings both lenses to early-stage founders, working across market positioning, competitive dynamics, and go-to-market strategy. She helps teams sharpen their fundraising approach, tighten unit economics, and build growth plans they can actually execute.

She advises and mentors startups through Plug and Play, AI2, Golden Seeds, and other angel groups. Her depth spans B2B and B2C, hardware and software, product and operations.

What that means for you: someone who has sat in the founder's chair herself, so the plan she builds with you accounts for the constraints only a founder feels, not just the ones a strategist sees.
Robin Lien, Managing Partner at Velix Group
Robin Lien
Managing Partner

Robin built her career at the intersection of early-stage hustle and institutional scale. After two startups, she joined Google before it was a household name and spent eighteen years building a global enterprise practice from the ground up.

She knows what separates companies that scale from companies that swirl: disciplined GTM architecture, knowing precisely who the right customer is, and the willingness to say what founders don't always want to hear. As Managing Partner of Velix Group, she works with founders to validate GTM readiness and build repeatable revenue engines. Her domain expertise spans SaaS, AI, retail and ecommerce, adtech, media, and travel.

What that means for you: a partner who has run this exact build at zero and at enterprise scale, and who will tell you plainly which parts of it you actually need right now.
How we think

How we think about our work

Strategy without execution is a slide deck

Most advisory engagements produce a document. We produce a motion. The difference is whether someone stays to see if it runs.

Execution without strategy is just activity

We have seen founders spend eighteen months building a machine that goes in the wrong direction. Speed matters. So does orientation.

The model matters less than the moment

B2B, B2B2C, B2C: the fundamentals are the same. Product in market. Customers generating signal. A specific problem worth solving.

Named results, or we say so

We do not claim outcomes we cannot verify. Every result on this site is confirmed by the client named next to it.

We tell you when we're not the answer

The GTM Diagnostic is real. If we are not the right answer, we will say so, and tell you who is.

No bench. No handoffs.

You hire us. You get us. There is no team behind us that executes what we sell.

The process

What an engagement actually looks like

01

GTM Diagnostic, 45 minutes

A free conversation covering your current data and signals, your growth goals, and your budget and raise plans. We figure out together whether the Fundable Founder Program, an embedded engagement, or project-based work is the right fit, or whether we should reconnect later.

02

Embed fast

For pre-raise founders, that is the eight-week cohort. For seed and Series A founders, we are usually working within days: a rapid audit of your data, your team, and your current motion before we build anything new.

03

Work in your systems, not ours

We operate in your Slack, your data tools, your existing stack. We do not require you to adopt a new project management system or reporting cadence that only we understand.

04

Build the motion, not the dependency

Everything we build, we document. When the engagement ends, your team should be able to run the motion without us. If they cannot, we have not done our job.

05

Report clearly

We write clearly and report on outcomes, not activity, on the cadence and in the format that works for your board or your own operating rhythm.

Common questions

What is a fractional operator?
A fractional operator is a senior leader who embeds part-time across strategy, marketing, operations, and product inside a company that does not yet need a full-time CMO, COO, or chief of staff. At Velix, that means two partners embedded in one engagement, replacing a part-time CMO plus a fractional COO plus a strategy advisor.
How is Velix different from a fractional CMO or GTM advisor?
You get two senior operators, not one function, and not a generalist advisor. We know what investors expect at each stage, and we align your go-to-market work to the signals and metrics that support both org growth and investor readiness. Engagements flex to your runway: project-based where a monthly retainer doesn't fit, embedded where more time is needed.
Do you work with B2C companies?
Yes. We work across B2B, B2B2C, and B2C: from SaaS platforms to consumer marketplaces to CPG. The model matters less than the moment: product in market, real customers, and a growth problem worth solving.
What stage of company do you work with?
We work with founders by stage: pre-raise and pre-seed founders through the Fundable Founder Program, seed founders building their first commercialization engine, and Series A founders scaling one that already works. We are not the right fit yet if you are pre-product or have no signal to build from.
What's the difference between the Fundable Founder Program and working with Velix directly?
The Fundable Founder Program is an eight-week cohort built for pre-raise and pre-seed founders, a structured format at a lower cost of entry. Working with Velix directly means Robin and Shanti embed with your team on a project or fractional basis, built for seed and Series A founders with more specific, ongoing needs.
What happens if we're not the right fit?
We tell you plainly, on the GTM Diagnostic call itself whenever we can. We do not sell an engagement we do not believe will work, and where we can, we point you to who might be a better fit instead.

Curious whether your go-to-market is actually working?

A GTM Diagnostic is a free 45-minute conversation, no pitch attached.

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