Vela

AI Agents For Complex Scheduling Coordination

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveB2B

What they do

Problem

Teams waste time and lose efficiency coordinating complex, nuance-heavy scheduling across many participants using manual outreach and spreadsheets.

Solution

Vela is an AI agent scheduling assistant that connects to a system of record and automates outreach, scheduling, and confirmations while learning human and industry-specific nuances.

Who it's for

Operational and recruiting-style teams that must coordinate high-volume, complex scheduling with many candidates or participants.

Founders

Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati

Founder

Gobhanu left Wharton's Huntsman Program to go all in on Vela. Ex- Perplexity & BCG AI. Z Fellow. Previously founded SWIFTmfi (a microfinance bank) at 14, disbursed loans across 77 countries.

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Saatvik Suryajit Korisepati

Founder

Saatvik dropped out of UChicago (Booth Scholar, MBA/MS CS) to build Vela. Filed his first patent at 16. Previously an award winning engineer on AWS's ML Supercompute team. BS CS + IS from Carnegie Mellon. Z Fellow.

Open roles 3

Founding Engineer @ Vela | Solving Scheduling

San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $110K - $300K · 0.01% - 2.00%

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AI Operations Associate

IN / Pune, MH, IN / Pune, Maharashtra, IN / Bengaluru, KA, IN / Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN / DL, IN / Delhi, IN / Chennai, TN, IN / Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN / Remote (IN; Pune, MH, IN; Pune, Maharashtra, IN; Bengaluru, KA, IN; Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN; DL, IN; Delhi, IN; Chennai, TN, IN; Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN) · Full-time · ₹700K - ₹1.2M INR

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Founding Engineer @ Vela | Solving Scheduling | India

IN / Remote (IN) · Full-time · ₹2M - ₹6M INR · 0.10%

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