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What does Vela Partners invest in?
Vela Partners invests most often at Seed and Series A (71% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Genai, Payment and Smbs.
Vela Partners highlights
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5 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 71% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $3.2M
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $50K – $2.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- GenaiPaymentSmbs
- Based in
- San Rafael, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
A website was listed for this organisation, but we could not confirm it belongs to the firm that wrote these cheques. Either the site never mentions them, or it turned out to be a different company sharing the name. We show neither it nor anything read from it. Tell us the right one.
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first24 appearances
- 2026
5 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- Jul
- May
- Feb
- 2025
6 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- May
- May
- Mar
- Jan
- 2024
4 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- Mar
- Mar
- 2023
5 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Jul
- May
- May
- 2022
3 rounds
- Jul
- Apr
- Apr
- 2021
1 round
- Aug
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
YIYigit IhlamurManageriFiling they signed
We also hold 4 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
27 of 49 we have independently watched raise
AnythingAuxiaAxiomcloudBaseoperationsBearroboticsBluequbitCartkenCerbyGoooodsHivergeInterviewingLeaksignalLegendLightupLimitlessMireloNominalOwnidPensievePhaidraProtopieRadiantopsRefibuyRigorSimularVartanaVieuAkoolArenaBitoBroxCopperCvilFireflyonGoldenHuckleberrycareJoboxKuikaKunduzLevelplaneLovieMeditopiaPolymersearchPrism-aiPromisePromotedThunkVoltWave
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.