Vela Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

39

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

26

Rounds per year

4.33

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.31

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyRetail TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSComputer VisionComputer

Summary

In 2017 was created Vela Partners, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Copper, interviewing.io, Grabango The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Fitness.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Vela Partners, startups are often financed by Tuesday Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Yigit Ihlamur. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Industry Ventures, Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Industry Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big Data
Stage focus
Series ASeed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
5
Rounds per year
4.33
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Software (18)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • SaaS (8)
  • Artificial Intelligence (8)
  • Machine Learning (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (33)
  • Germany (2)
  • Japan (2)
  • South Korea (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.92

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Goooods 28 Sep 2022 Seed 4M Kantō, Akasaka, Japan
Phaidra 15 Jul 2022 Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Industrial Automation Early Stage Venture 25M United States, Washington, Seattle

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