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The YC S26 Startup Radar from Vela, a tier-1 quant VC. All 122 B2B companies in the YC Summer 2026 batch scored with quantitative models and two taste profiles, Vela's own and one built from the public track record of a16z, a tier-1 VC. Filter, sort, and decide who to meet first.

Vela ran a live AI arena scoring GPT, Claude, and Gemini against real startup outcomes for two months. Four early signals, and a preview of VC Arena and VCRouter.

Data from ~70 seed rounds (2024-2026) shows how Sequoia, Benchmark, a16z, Founders Fund, Thrive, and Lightspeed pick founders. Six personas reveal your best-fit firm.

How founders use Vela Coach beyond VC pitch prep. The patterns AI surfaces in sales calls, interview rounds, and team one-on-ones.

Most legendary venture deals (OpenAI, Wiz, Anthropic) were not contrarian. A quant VC framework for contrarian vs consensus investing as math, not romance.

Vela Coach is the open-source AI coach for founders. Reads your last 90 days of meetings and surfaces the leadership and fundraising patterns a $500-an-hour executive coach would.

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.

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.

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.