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Vela Partners

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Total investments 37
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 4.11
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nominal

$9M27 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

LeakSignal

$1M21 Mar 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

Base Operations

Big Data
Information Technology
Security
Software
Travel
$9M21 Dec 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Lightup

Cloud Data Services
Software
$9M31 Mar 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

Vartana

Finance
Financial Services
Service Industry
$12M24 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Axiom Cloud

SaaS
Software
$7M18 Jan 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Golden

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Financial Services
Health Care
Knowledge Management
Machine Learning
Medical
Software
$40M03 Oct 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

DagKnows

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
23 Sep 2022 Sacramento, California, United States

Phaidra

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$25M15 Jul 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

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Total investments 37
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 4.11
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.30
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nominal

$9M27 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

LeakSignal

$1M21 Mar 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

Base Operations

Big Data
Information Technology
Security
Software
Travel
$9M21 Dec 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Lightup

Cloud Data Services
Software
$9M31 Mar 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

Vartana

Finance
Financial Services
Service Industry
$12M24 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Axiom Cloud

SaaS
Software
$7M18 Jan 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Golden

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Financial Services
Health Care
Knowledge Management
Machine Learning
Medical
Software
$40M03 Oct 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

DagKnows

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
23 Sep 2022 Sacramento, California, United States

Phaidra

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$25M15 Jul 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States
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