Vela Partners

Venture Capital
50investments
5exits
$56.3Mraised by its portfolio in 12 months
138open roles in its portfolio

Overview

We fund AI founders in days, not months. The leading AI-native quant VC backing seed-stage startups with $100K–$500K checks and soft commits in 2–7 days.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
50
37 of them startups
Hiring now
21
138 open roles
Rounds in 12 months
3
$56.3M raised
Exits
5
Focusshare of its companies
Artificial Intelligence 40%Cybersecurity 13%Software 10%Data & Analytics 10%Professional Services 8%Media & Entertainment 5%Sales & Marketing 5%Commerce 5%
Where its companies are
United States 56%United Kingdom 4%France 2%Germany 2%India 2%
Stage of its companies
Series A 61%Pre-seed & seed 17%Series B 17%Series C and later 4%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 50 investments
HivergeVenture round · 3 mo ago · 4 roles ReFiBuyVenture round $15.3M · 6 mo ago · 2 roles Mirelo AISeed $41M · 10 mo ago · 8 roles PhaidraSeries B $50M · 13 mo ago · 8 roles KuikaVenture round $4.6M · 13 mo ago NominalSeries A $20M · 15 mo ago · 7 roles CerbySeries B $40M · 17 mo ago · 9 roles AuxiaVenture round $23.5M · 20 mo ago · 7 roles VieuSeed $11M · 2 yr ago BlueQubitVenture round $10.1M · 2 yr ago Bear RoboticsSeries C $60M · 2 yr ago · 39 roles Axiom CloudVenture round $5M · 2 yr ago · 1 role
138 open roles at 21 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Cerby4 new roles in 30 days
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Andreessen Horowitz 5 shared Plug and Play 3 shared Atlantic 3 shared Y Combinator 2 shared Index Ventures 2 shared Techstars 2 shared Spero Ventures 2 shared GV 2 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Y Combinator Multimodal Ventures Soma Capital Menlo Ventures Sequoia Capital Andreessen Horowitz First Round Capital Felicis
Sources: its portfolio page, read Nov 3

News

News Vela Partners 8 months ago
KuzuDB Fork for AI Agents: 374x Faster Than Neo4j
KuzuDB was archived in 2025. Vela Partners - a leading quant VC - forked it with concurrent writes for multi-agent AI. Benchmarks: 374x faster than Neo4j.
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News PRTIMES JP 1 year ago
Bio Engineering Capital、米国AI駆動型VC「Vela Partners」と戦略的提携契約を締結
Bio Engineering Capital株式会社のプレスリリース2025年4月28日 10時00分Bio Engineering Capital、米国AI駆動型VC「Vela Partners」と戦略的提携契約を締結
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News BRIDGE 3 years ago
姿を現したVela Partners、属人的なVCの仕事をAIでスケーラブルに変化させるモデルとは
ChatGPT をはじめとしたジェネレーティブ AI の話題が世界を席巻する中で、シリコンバレー界隈では今月初めあたりから、AI を活用したベンチャーキャピタル Vela Partners のニュースが俄かに注目を集めて ……
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News Forbes 3 years ago
World's First Product-Led And AI Powered VC Firm Comes Out Of Stealth - Meet Vela Partners
This article introduces Vela Parters a unique VC fund which just closed its first fund focused on AI/ML that has a unique value proposition.
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News zonebourse.com 3 years ago
Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS:AAPL) a racheté WaveOne, Inc à In-Q-Tel, Inc, Khosla Ventures, LLC, Vela Partners, L.P., Omega Venture Partners, Blue Ivy Ventures Incubate Fund. Read more
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ