Vela Partners is a seed-stage venture fund focused only on AI startups, built on a five-plus-year research partnership with the University of Oxford and run with a decision process that requires agreement from two human partners and one machine partner, using tools like its VCBench benchmark, Entrepreneur OS, and Vela Coach to turn founder evaluation and venture decisions into measurable, data-driven processes. Its founders, including an ex-Google engineer trained at Oxford, set out in 2017 to build an AI startup that invests in other AI startups, and the fund now backs that approach with quantified, minutes-to-days decision speed, an open-sourced agent-memory database, and tier-1 VC firms listed among its own limited partners.