Vela

Vela is what happens when you point AI at the most painful part of recruiting: the scheduling nightmare. Backed by YC, Pareto Holdings, Z Fellows, and Cory Levy, Vela is an AI scheduling assistant that books interviews, coordinates across clients and candidates, and handles all that soul-crushing back-and-forth so recruiters don't have to. She works over email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, Teams, and phone—and she's scheduling thousands of interviews each week.

Here's why recruiting agencies can't live without her: speed to submit is everything. The first agency to present a candidate usually wins the fee. But between client availability in one thread, candidate availability in another, timezone chaos, and the inevitable no-shows who go dark between messages—recruiters are spending hours just trying to get people in a room. One 60-minute interview can take 15+ minutes of coordination, and with a 35% reschedule rate, that time multiplies fast. Vela's math is brutal: 30 interviews a week at 15 minutes each equals 10 hours of pure scheduling toil. Multiply by four weeks and you've lost 43.5 hours a month to calendar tetris. Vela handles it all—pulling availability, proposing times in everyone's timezone, auto-following up with unresponsive candidates and clients, booking, confirming, reminding, and rescheduling without a human touching a thing.

Recruiters CC Vela on an email or text her directly, she reads the context, coordinates everyone end-to-end, and the interview just gets booked. No more chasing. No more losing placements to agencies who moved faster because their scheduling was less broken. Vela makes the first agency to present the candidate the winner—every time.

Based in San Francisco and backed by some of the best names in startup land, Vela is growing fast and signing up agencies who are done treating calendar management as a contact sport.