Eliran Vaknin Named to Automatic Merchandiser’s 40 Under 40, Class of 2026
In 2016, Eliran Vaknin walked into SHEKEL with an idea and nothing else: a smart cooler that could recognize a product by weight in under half a second. No cameras. No playbook. No shortcuts.
That idea is now Weight AI™, running inside smart coolers and autonomous retail deployments worldwide. Eliran, SHEKEL’s Chief Product Officer, didn’t just build a product. He helped build the category around it. This month, Automatic Merchandiser & VendingMarketWatch named him to their 40 Under 40, Class of 2026.
Over nearly a decade, he has:
- Co-founded SHEKEL’s Retail Innovation Division from zero
- Architected a multi-tenant cloud system managing thousands of IoT endpoints
- Led the company’s shift to a products-first strategy
- Grown a global portfolio of Weight AI™-powered solutions
He arrived with founder’s instinct already tested. Before SHEKEL, Eliran co-founded, raised investment for, and exited a startup, before turning 30.
Building an industry from the inside looks like this: one idea, no shortcuts, a decade of follow-through.
Congratulations, Eliran.
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