Vela YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Vela went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2026
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Gobhanu Sasankar KorisepatiFounder
Saatvik Suryajit KorisepatiFounder

What Vela does

We are building Vela, the AI scheduling assistant for the most complex interactions. Everyone assumes scheduling is a calendaring problem. It's not. It's a human nuance problem: knowing who to prioritize, how hard to push, and which dynamics to navigate. Vela understands these nuances, and every interaction deepens that understanding. Instead of manually calling, texting, and emailing hundreds of candidates across spreadsheets, today teams connect their system of record to Vela and it handles outreach, scheduling, and confirmation automatically with the nuances of industries and teams built in. Gobhanu and Saatvik are brothers who scaled a microfinance bank to 77 countries as kids. We previously built at AWS ML + SuperCompute and BCG AI.

Vela's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Vela, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Vela

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Agents For Complex Scheduling Coordination

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built Vela, an AI scheduling assistant that handles complex scheduling tasks beyond just syncing calendars. It understands who to prioritize, how hard to push, and how to navigate human dynamics automatically, replacing manual emails and calls with automated, nuanced outreach and confirmation.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and Vela will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us near the best network of AI talent and early users in B2B productivity. It's also home for us, so it's where we can build most effectively.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Vela YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Vela's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Vela would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.