The Finance Shelf

Investor directory / United States

Vela Partners

Venture capitalSan Francisco, United StatesFounded 2017

Vela Partners is a quantitative venture capital firm based in San Francisco that invests exclusively in AI companies. The firm provides early-stage funding from inception through Series A using proprietary quantitative research and AI-native evaluation models.

Stages
Pre-seed, Seed, Series A
Sectors
AI
Business model
Not stated
Ticket size
“Vela writes $100K to $500K seed checks, with soft commits in two to seven days.” (from their website)
Website
vela.partners

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