Yigit Ihlamur
Co-founder, General Partner @ Vela Partners
San Francisco, United States
Yigit Ihlamur is a seed investor at Vela Partners in San Francisco focused on Apps and Fitness. Yigit Ihlamur - Co-founder, General Partner @ Vela Partners
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Yigit Ihlamur invests in
Stages Yigit Ihlamur invests in
Countries Yigit Ihlamur invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $480k–$11M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$7.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 2 (25%)
- Fitness 2 (25%)
- mHealth 2 (25%)
- Software 2 (25%)
- Wellness 2 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 3 (38%)
- Germany 2 (25%)
- Japan 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| 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 | ||
| Vieu offers a comprehensive AI-generated execution strategy, from prospecting to proposal to procurement. | $11M / Seed / Oct 03, 2024 | ||
| Goooods provides engagement in the development and operation of B2B commerce. | $4.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 17, 2024 | ||
| Axiom Cloud uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling and refrigeration industry. Their first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install and configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaS fees for one or more cloud-basedsoftware apps that run on the IoT platform.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Oakland, California, United States. | $7.4M / Series A / Jan 18, 2023 | ||
| Goooods provides engagement in the development and operation of B2B commerce. | $3.7M / Seed / Sep 28, 2022 | ||
| Axiom Cloud uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling and refrigeration industry. Their first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install and configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaS fees for one or more cloud-basedsoftware apps that run on the IoT platform.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Oakland, California, United States. | $2.5M / Series A / Oct 11, 2021 | ||
| Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives. | $480K / Seed / Jan 05, 2018 | ||
| Founded in 2017, Meditopia is one of the world’s leading global mental wellbeing platforms and the #1 App globally for non-English speaking countries. With over 30 million members in over 120 countries, Meditopia's content has been localized by experts in 12 different languages.A platform with a strong focus on coaching and meditation,Meditopia was founded with the clear mission to provide mental health practices anytime, anywhere for everyone around the world.The platform, available on iOS, Android and web and present in over 120 countries, offers content for meditation, sleep, and motivation in different formats including audio, music, texts and, most recently art. This content has been exclusively developed by mental health and wellbeing professionals including psychologists, mental health coaches, sleep experts, etc, from across the globe, localizing the materials to address the specific needs of individuals from different cultures and backgrounds, and unique daily challenges.Meditopia has achieved impressive growth in numbers of users and, most importantly, in satisfaction and trustworthiness consistently rating above 4.8* in over 500.000 reviews in all app stores. In 2021, Meditopia launched “Meditopia For Work,” a series of tailored mental health solutions for companies. Working already with over 80 businesses worldwide, Meditopia For Work provides services ranging from one-to-one coaching sessions with employees, to comprehensive support to the HR and people’s departments in tracking, measuring and understanding the state of mental wellness of their companies and developing mental health programs tailored to their specific needs. | $480K / Seed / Jan 05, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Vela Partners
We back early-stage AI startups for top-decile returns. Tier-1 VCs are limited partners.
Vela Partners Contacts
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Baris Yesugey
Limited Partner
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Fuat Alican
Co-founder, General Partner, and Chief Investment Officer
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Yigit Ihlamur
Co-founder, General Partner
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FAQ
What does Yigit Ihlamur invest in?
Yigit Ihlamur invests primarily in Apps, Fitness and mHealth startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Yigit Ihlamur's check size?
Yigit Ihlamur typically joins rounds of $480k–$11M at Seed and $2.5M–$7.4M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yigit Ihlamur participates in.
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When did Yigit Ihlamur last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Yigit Ihlamur closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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