What Is a Quant VC? A Practical Guide to Quantitative and AI-Native Venture Capital
→A plain-English guide to quant VCs, AI-native VCs, and scientific venture capital — how Vela Partners uses data and AI to fund seed-stage AI founders.
April 19, 2026·6 min read·Yigit Ihlamur
19 Emerging Trends Reshaping Open-Source AI Infrastructure in 2026
→Vela Partners, an AI-native quant VC, analyzed 854 open-source repos to surface 19 AI infrastructure trends reshaping 2026 — from MCP to agentic frameworks.
March 22, 2026·15 min read·Yigit Ihlamur
KuzuDB for Production AI Agents: Our Fork, the Benchmarks, and Why Graph Memory Works
→KuzuDB was archived in 2025. Vela Partners — a leading quant VC — forked it with concurrent writes for multi-agent AI. Benchmarks: 374x faster than Neo4j.
March 7, 2026·12 min read·Aikins Laryea, Yigit Ihlamur