Vela Terminal

Vela Terminal

Co-pilot for VCs

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Vela Terminal helps VCs identify growing market trends, map out relationships, and find fast-growing startups.
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Vela OS

Vela OS

Invest in startups 10x more accurately with AI agents
Vela OS was ranked #5 of the week for December 2nd, 2024
Vela OS was ranked #1 of the day for December 2nd, 2024
Vela OS is an AI-native operating system making startup investors 10x more accurate, compared to a traditional VC firm. With a swarm of AI agents, investors can discover growing markets, companies, people and make quant-driven decisions to maximize returns.
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Yigit Ihlamur
Maker
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@cem_ozcelik, thanks so much for hunting us! Hey PH’ers, I'm Yiğit, co-founder & GP of Vela Partners. Today we are excited to launch Vela OS! In 2017, we discovered that early-stage investors who invest in innovation were not innovating in their very own businesses. No AI, no data, just intuition. That is such an oxymoron, isn’t it? 🙂 We perceived this as a scientific research problem – helping innovation-focused capital find the right projects faster. The end result is Vela OS, an AI-native operating system making startup investors 10x more accurate and efficient than a traditional VC firm. The core value is simple: source and pick startups 10x more accurately than the market index to bring superior returns. Here are the benchmarks: - 19% (Vela AI) - 6% (tier-1 VCs) - 3% (YCombinator) - 1.9% (US Market index) outlier rate. We’re using Vela OS every day, as investors and builders. We open-source code, publish papers and give Vela OS access to our limited partners, portfolio companies and entrepreneurs in residence. In terms of features, agents, tools, datasets, heuristics and workflows are reflections of how a VC brain works. They are purpose-built AI agents and ML-powered expert tools for various use-cases such as sourcing, relationship intelligence, influence mapping, success analyzer and calculator. We’ll provide access to everyone during this launch. We’re so excited to hear your feedback!
Cem Özçelik
Hunter
@yigit Congratulations! It's exciting to see such an innovative approach to improving early-stage investing with AI. Wishing you great success and looking forward to seeing the impact it makes!
Yigit Ihlamur
Maker
@cem_ozcelik thank you so much for your kind words, and continuous feedback on how we can improve our product!
Bernardt Vogel
@cem_ozcelik @yigit I’ve been following the Vela team since their early white papers on AI agents aimed at enhancing efficiency in venture capital, particularly through their “Automated Startup Evaluation Pipeline: Startup Success Forecasting Framework.” Their innovative approach to automating startup evaluations has been impressive, and it’s exciting to see their progress and impact on the industry. The Vela team has demonstrated exceptional dedication in developing a product that not only meets the current needs of investors but also anticipates future trends in AI-driven investment strategies. Congratulations to the Vela team on this impressive launch! I look forward to seeing the positive impact Vela OS will have on the investment community.
Yigit Ihlamur
Maker
@bernardtv, thanks so much for your kind words and support. We're excited to collaborate with fellow investors like yourself to accelerate capital deployment into innovative projects! Always ready to open-source and publish new stuff together.
Tony Tong
Congrats to the Vela OS team on the launch! This AI-driven tool could significantly transform the way VCs make decisions, providing more accurate insights for startup investments. I'm curious about the balance between quantitative data and the human intuition that often guides these decisions. Will Vela OS incorporate qualitative factors, like team dynamics or market trends, to further enhance its predictions? This could elevate the accuracy even more. Excited to see how it evolves and disrupts the venture capital landscape!
Yigit Ihlamur
Maker
@tonyabracadabra great question! We have quantitive and qualitative features baked into the platform. For instance, you can use our `Calculator` to calculate the impact of qualitative features such as "EQ" or "Assertiveness" alongside with founder-idea-fit scores and team synergies? In case you want to read one of our research papers, here's more info: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12037....
Tony Tong
@yigit Wow, I quickly glanced through the paper, and it’s incredibly well-written—thank you for the detailed breakdown, it’s truly mind-opening! It would be amazing if you could incorporate multihop reasoning into the fit evaluation to make the results even more robust. Another thought: it might be valuable to generate actionable paths for founders who want to build on specific ideas, using the insights you’ve already developed. Excited to see how this evolves!
Yigit Ihlamur
Maker
@tonyabracadabra thank you for the kind feedback! We've developed and published this research before agents have become more mature. You're exactly right about multi-hop reasoning - now we're working on a more sophisticated approach on it in our research cycle in December. We'll back test the founder-idea-fit and team-synergy scores with a ML+LLM model in hybrid to make it more robust. And, yes, you're spot on about the founders. Our goal is to enable any self-funded, bootstrapped or venture-backed founder to get access to the Silicon Valley VC insights from anywhere around the world. We're observing that some stuff we build is relevant for founders to form a team or get feedback on what they are working on rapidly, rather than having a close VC buddy ;)
Zakari Salifu
Maker
Finally, an OS that lets AI handle the due diligence while investors take 10x longer coffee breaks ☕🤖!
Yigit Ihlamur
Maker
@zakari_salifu haha!! Spot on value proposition :)