Vela Partners is a San Francisco-based investment firm, pioneering an innovative way of investing in startups, which we call Ventech (Venture technology). Vela is an AI-enabled data business, collecting insights about markets, companies, and other relevant components of the ecosystem. Then it leverages these insights by making better investment decisions and by helping improve the performance of its portfolio. We find and analyze startups through our machine learning platform. Our true north is to find the best tech startups where world-class entrepreneurs solve real problems of people, enterprises, and societies, and develop ‘must-have’ products based on innovation, research and development, and science.