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Vela

Vela

Winter 2026Hiring

The AI Scheduling Assistant that truly knows you.

San Francisco, CA, USA20264 peopleActive
Artificial IntelligenceB2BRecruitingCalendarAI Assistant
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About Company

Vela is the AI Scheduling Assistant built to handle the ambiguity that breaks scheduling. It has taste: it knows to prioritize a client over an internal catch-up, and it understands "Let's do early next week" without setting specific parameters. You just add Vela to the conversation, and it handles the white-glove negotiation as a member of your team, even at scale. Today, Vela is already used by professionals with the most complicated scheduling workflows. Enterprise recruiters are using Vela to schedule thousands of multi-party interviews and large sales teams rely on Vela to coordinate cross-functional calls.

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Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati

Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati

Founder

Co-founder & CEO of Vela. Left Wharton's Huntsman Program. Previously BCG AI, Perplexity & Deloitte. Founded SWIFTmfi at 14, disbursing $400K+ in interest-free microloans to 3,200+ women across 77 countries. Diana Legacy Award recipient from Prince William; Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholar.

Saatvik Suryajit Korisepati

Saatvik Suryajit Korisepati

Founder

Before Vela, Saatvik was an award-winning engineer on AWS's ML Supercompute team. He completed two #1-ranked programs at Carnegie Mellon (CS and Information Systems) in two years with highest honors. A Booth Scholar (MBA/MS CS) and ZFellow, he dropped out of UChicago to build Vela. He co-founded SWIFT, Oman's largest microfinance institution, impacting 74,000+ lives across 77 countries (Diana Award recipient). Filed his first patent at 16.

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calendar_monthFounded2026
trending_upStageEarly
categoryIndustryB2B
location_onLocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
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