Companies · AI / ML
San Francisco · CA, USA · AI / ML · founded 2026 · https://tryvela.ai
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Vela — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Vela: limited disclosed financing to assess.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Vela is one of 2067 AI / ML companies tracked from San Francisco, CA, USA, on record since 2026. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 62% of sector peers), and mid-pack by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst”
AI Agents For Complex Scheduling Coordination
We are building Vela, the AI scheduling assistant for the most complex interactions. Everyone assumes scheduling is a calendaring problem. It's not. It's a human nuance problem: knowing who to prioritize, how hard to push, and which dynamics to navigate. Vela understands these nuances, and every interaction deepens that understanding. Instead of manually calling, texting, and emailing hundreds of candidates across spreadsheets, today teams connect their system of record to Vela and it handles outreach, scheduling, and confirmation automatically with the nuances of industries and teams built in. Gobhanu and Saatvik are brothers who scaled a microfinance bank to 77 countries as kids. We previously built at AWS ML + SuperCompute and BCG AI.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
No round amounts on record to chart.
No staged rounds to sequence.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 2067 companies in AI / ML. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 62% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 62% of peers (estimate).
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
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Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Vela is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
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| a0.dev | AI / ML | — | — | — | same sector |
| Accord | AI / ML | — | — | — | same sector |
| Acely | AI / ML | — | — | — | same sector |
| Adam | AI / ML | — | — | — | same sector |
| Aedilic | AI / ML | — | — | — | same sector |
| Affogato AI | AI / ML | — | — | — | same sector |
| Aftercare | AI / ML | — | — | — | same sector |
| Afternoon.co | AI / ML | — | — | — | same sector |
Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Velos Platform to automate manual back-office work | AI / ML | — | — | 76% |
| Venu AI Meet qualified leads in person by automating conference production | AI / ML | — | — | 76% |
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| Patterns Next-Gen Financial Analysis and Reporting with AI Agents | AI / ML | — | — | 76% |
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