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How Founders Use an AI Coach: Sales, Hiring, and Leadership
How founders use Vela Coach beyond VC pitch prep. The patterns AI surfaces in sales calls, interview rounds, and team one-on-ones.
Contrarian vs Consensus in Venture Capital: A Quant VC Framework
Most legendary venture deals (OpenAI, Wiz, Anthropic) were not contrarian. A quant VC framework for contrarian vs consensus investing as math, not romance.
AI Coach for Founders: How to Prep for a VC Pitch With Vela Coach
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.
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.
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.
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.