Vela Partners
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Vela Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. We back early-stage AI startups for top-decile returns. Tier-1 VCs are limited partners.
- Total investments:
- 67
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
- Fund size:
- $25M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Vela Partners invests in
Stages Vela Partners invests in
Countries Vela Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.9M–$13M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.5M–$3M
- Series A
- $6.5M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 22 (33%)
- Software 21 (31%)
- Information Technology 16 (24%)
- Machine Learning 7 (10%)
- SaaS 5 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 31 (46%)
- Series A 19 (28%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (6%)
- Series B 2 (3%)
Country
- United States 42 (63%)
- Germany 3 (4%)
- Japan 1 (1%)
- South Korea 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Baris Yesugey
Limited Partner
|
Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Fuat Alican
Co-founder, General Partner, and Chief Investment Officer
|
Co-founder, General Partner, and Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Yigit Ihlamur
Co-founder, General Partner
|
Co-founder, General Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| RadiantOps solves AI adoption for software teams. RadiantOps surfaces the work worthy of an engineering leader's attention, names what changed and who understood it, and compares it with the team's own history. Engineering leaders see whether agents are making their teams faster, what that is doing to quality, and what it costs, across every coding agent in the organization. Those answers justify a renewal, a headcount plan, or an AI budget. Every answer threads back to ground truth. RadiantOps reads the commits, reviews, tickets and agent runs a team already produces (GitHub, Jira, Slack, and the coding agents themselves, including Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Codex) and ties them to the work they belong to. We surface the change, attach the evidence, and leave the verdict with the people who know the terrain. | $7M / Seed / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Discern Security develops artificial intelligence software that helps organizations assess, prioritize, and remediate cybersecurity risks across enterprise environments. The company's platform integrates with security tools to consolidate posture, configuration, asset, identity, vulnerability, and compliance data into a unified operationalview for security teams. Its technology provides AI-powered analysis, risk prioritization, automated security controls assessment, remediation workflows, policy management, and security dashboards that support continuous monitoring and operational decision-making.Discern Security also offers autonomous AI agents that assist with posture evaluation, remediation planning, workflow orchestration, reporting, and cross-platform security management while maintaining governance and auditability. The company's platform is designed to help security teams improve visibility, automate routine security operations, optimize existing security controls, and manage cyber risk across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and software-as-a-service environments. | $13M / Series A / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Triangle Tweener Fund seeks to create an index of private company investments in their early stages. Its goal is to create an index of Triangle-area early-stage, high-tech startups that meet the 'Tweener List' Criteria. | $15.3M / Seed / May 05, 2026 | ||
| Pensieve is an AI educational platform that handles grading and provides feedback to colleges with lectures. | $6.9M / Seed / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| Mirelo AI offers AI-driven tools that generate custom sound effects and music to match video content through upload or API integration. It enables users to produce synced audio from silent footage and refine or edit audio tracks with an intuitive online editor. The platform also provides APIs and model fine-tuning options that let other productsembed its video-to-sound capabilities directly into their workflows. Mirelo’s technology is based on proprietary AI models designed to interpret visual media and automatically generate corresponding audio elements. The company sources and processes input files to output audio that aligns with visual action and creative intent. | $41M / Seed / Dec 15, 2025 | ||
| Nominal empowers the next-generation economy.Nominal modernizes and automates accounting and financial management, providing robust reporting, multi-entity consolidation, workflow automation (including accruals and revenue), lease compliance (ASC 842/IFRS 16), period-end close collaboration, and much more.Nominal's generativesubledgers transform business logic into actions and insights using Generative AI - without the need for costly engineering or lengthy IT projects. Our shadow-ledger is implemented in days, not months, and seamlessly integrates with existing general ledgers and ERPs. | $20M / Series A / Jul 09, 2025 | ||
| Bito is a game-changing productivity tool for developers that accelerates software development using best in class AI models, like ChatGPT from OpenAI, and Anthropic. Bito’s plugin integrates seamlessly into a developer’s IDE and CLI, providing instant access to their own personal AI assistant. Nearly 100,000 developers are using Bito toincrease their productivity by an incredible 31%, performing more than 1 million AI requests a week. Bito is helping them more than 200 times per month, which is more than they use search. Developers from companies such as Google, Airbnb, Riot Games, Tesla, Houzz, and Goldman Sachs use Bito to increase their productivity significantly by shortening the time to quality code, reducing bugs, improving devs understanding of unfamiliar code, and allows developers to spend more time on critical thinking and less time on dull and irksome work. | $5.7M / Seed / May 27, 2025 | ||
| Promise is a film, series, and innovative format studio powered by the world’s best Gen AI artists and storytellers. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 20, 2025 | ||
| Rigor AI (rigor.ai) is an early-stage technology startup, founded by several repeat entrepreneurs. We've been operational since January 2025. | $3.2M / Seed / May 16, 2025 | ||
| Triangle Tweener Fund seeks to create an index of private company investments in their early stages. Its goal is to create an index of Triangle-area early-stage, high-tech startups that meet the 'Tweener List' Criteria. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Mar 13, 2025 | ||
| See all 67 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Vela Partners invest in?
Vela Partners invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 67 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Vela Partners invest in?
Vela Partners typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$13M at Seed, $1.5M–$3M at Pre-Seed and $6.5M–$25M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Vela Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Vela Partners took part in.
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Who are the partners at Vela Partners?
The team at Vela Partners includes Baris Yesugey (Limited Partner), Fuat Alican (Co-founder, General Partner, and Chief Investment Officer) and Yigit Ihlamur (Co-founder, General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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