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Vela Partners

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Description

Vela Partners is the world's first product-led and AI-powered venture capital firm.

Investor Profile

Vela Partners has made 37 investments, with 4 in the past 12 months and 19% as lead.

Stage Focus

  • Seed (49%)
  • Series A (35%)
  • Series B (5%)
  • Series Unknown (5%)
  • Pre Seed (3%)
  • Convertible Note (3%)

Country Focus

  • United States (89%)
  • Japan (5%)
  • Germany (3%)
  • South Korea (3%)

Industry Focus

  • Artificial Intelligence (Ai)
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning
  • Saas
  • Computer Vision
  • Retail Technology
  • B2b
  • Analytics
  • Internet
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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Learn who this investor regularly partners with—both firms and angels—and explore their latest activity.

Who does Vela Partners frequently co-invest with?

Harpoon
North America, California, United States, San Diego
Co-Investments: 2
Bossa Invest
South America, Sao Paulo, Brazil, São Paulo
Co-Investments: 4
Incubate Fund
Asia, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo
Co-Investments: 12
Xoogler
North America, California, United States, San Francisco
Co-Investments: 2
Socii Capital
North America, California, United States, San Francisco
Co-Investments: 2
Andreessen Horowitz
North America, California, United States, Menlo Park
Co-Investments: 4
DCVC
North America, California, United States, San Francisco
Co-Investments: 2
Okta Ventures
North America, California, United States, San Jose
Co-Investments: 2
Ridge Ventures
North America, California, United States, San Francisco
Co-Investments: 3
Founders Fund
North America, California, United States, San Francisco
Co-Investments: 5

Which angels does Vela Partners often collaborate with?

LA
North America, California, United States
Shared Deals: 1
J“
North America, Washington, United States, Seattle
Shared Deals: 1
BS
North America, California, United States, San Francisco
Shared Deals: 1

What are some of recent deals done by Vela Partners?

Bito

Menlo Park, California, United States

Bito builds AI tools designed to help software engineers ship better code, faster.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareGenerative AISaaSSoftwareSoftware Engineering
SeedMay 27, 2025
Amount Raised: $5,700,000
Auxia

Los Altos, California, United States

Auxia is a composable, AI-based platform designed to help businesses accelerate product-led growth.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyProductivity ToolsSoftware
Series AMar 4, 2025
Amount Raised: $23,500,000
Vieu

Seattle, Washington, United States

Vieu offers a comprehensive AI-generated execution strategy, from prospecting to proposal to procurement.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business Information Systems
SeedOct 3, 2024
Amount Raised: $11,000,000
Cartken

Oakland, California, United States

Cartken is a delivery robot developer that specializes in transporting items over small distances and within neighborhoods.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer PlatformRobotics
Series UnknownJul 3, 2024
Amount Raised: $10,000,000
Goooods

Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan

Goooods provides engagement in the development and operation of B2B commerce.

B2BInformation Technology
Series UnknownApr 17, 2024
Amount Raised: $4,340,970
Nominal

New York, New York, United States

Nominal mission is to empower companies to make the decisions through financial data intelligence.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Financial ServicesSoftwareWeb Development
SeedMar 27, 2024
Amount Raised: $9,200,000
LeakSignal

Menlo Park, California, United States

LeakSignal is the Microsegmentation and Data Protection platform for microservices and service mesh

SeedMar 21, 2024
Amount Raised: $1,600,000
Base Operations

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Base Operations is a threat intelligence platform developer that organizes, visualizes, and interprets threat data to help organizations.

AnalyticsBig DataInformation TechnologySecuritySoftware
Series ADec 21, 2023
Amount Raised: $9,100,000
Cerby

San Francisco, California, United States

Cerby provides comprehensive access management for applications that don't work with identity providers.

Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityEnterprise SoftwareIdentity Management
Series AAug 22, 2023
Amount Raised: $17,000,000
Lightup

Mountain View, California, United States

No-Code Deep Data Quality, at Enterprise Scale

Cloud Data ServicesSoftware
Series AMar 31, 2023
Amount Raised: $9,000,000