Velt

San Francisco, CaliforniaFounded 2020

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Velt is an enterprise-grade collaboration toolkit that enables developers to add powerful multiplayer features like commenting, presence, and live co-editing to any web application ridiculously fast.

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Founding Story

Founded by former Google PM Rakesh Goyal and UX Designer Solène Oudet in 2020. The idea was sparked by the friction of remote collaboration during the pandemic, leading them to build a platform that makes 'Okta for Collaboration' a reality.

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Leadership

Founders

Rakesh Goyal

Co-founder & CEO. Previously a Product Manager at Google for 9 years, where he launched strategic products like Augmented Reality (AR) in Google Maps and Search. He is an alumnus of Y Combinator (W22).

Solène Oudet

Co-founder. Previously worked at Google as a Staff UX Designer. Along with Rakesh Goyal, she co-founded Velt (formerly Snippyly) in 2020 to solve remote collaboration challenges.

Executive Team

Rakesh Goyal

Co-founder & CEO

9-year veteran of Google as a Product Manager; Y Combinator alumnus.

Solène Oudet

Co-founder

Former Staff UX Designer at Google; design and product lead.

Business Model

Revenue Model

Usage-based (Monthly Active Connections - MACs) and tiered subscriptions.

Pricing Tiers

Hacker

Free

100 MACs, all features (15+), basic webhooks, for dev environments.

Growth

Custom

Contract-based MACs, Slack support, 99.999% Uptime SLA.

Enterprise

Custom

Data self-hosting, GDPR APIs, SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, isolated server, dedicated CSM.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

SaaS Developers
Enterprise Product Teams
Creative Tooling Companies
Marketing Agencies

Use Cases

Video Editors
Form Builders
Analytics Dashboards
Task Managers
Spreadsheet Applications
Session Replay Tools

Notable Customers

Heygen
Pendo
X
Customer.io

History & Milestones

2024

Expanded product offerings with AI-driven features and specialized plugins like the Claude Code plugin.

March 2023

Closed a $2.77 million Seed funding round led by Spider Capital and Y Combinator.

December 4, 2023

Public launch of the Velt JavaScript SDK, featured in TechCrunch.

January 2022

Joined Y Combinator as part of the Winter 2022 (W22) batch.

2020

Company founded in San Francisco, originally named Snippyly.

1 AI Tool by Velt

Velt

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Collab Spaces

A complete collaboration SDK that lets developers add contextual comments, notifications, multiplayer editing, presence, cursors, huddles, and recordings to any web product in minutes.

Quick Facts

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, USA

Founded

2020

Entity Type

Inc.

Employees

Investors

Y Combinator, Spider Capital

Office Locations

San Francisco

Latest News

December 4, 2023

Key Capabilities

Contextual Comments (10+ types)

Real-time Presence

Live Cursors

Multiplayer Co-editing

Huddles (Voice/Video)

Screen Recordings

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

React

Angular

Vue

Slack

Discord

Microsoft Teams

AWS S3

GCP

Key Partnerships

Y Combinator

Google Cloud

AWS

Connect

Website

velt.dev

GitHub

velt-js

AI Topics

Velt focuses on these topics:

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Velt

San Francisco, CaliforniaFounded 2020

1Tools Listed

1Combined Tool Views

Velt is an enterprise-grade collaboration toolkit that enables developers to add powerful multiplayer features like commenting, presence, and live co-editing to any web application ridiculously fast.

Website View Tools View Discussions

Founding Story

Discussions

No discussions yet

Be the first to start a discussion about Velt

Leadership

Founders

Rakesh Goyal

Solène Oudet

Co-founder. Previously worked at Google as a Staff UX Designer. Along with Rakesh Goyal, she co-founded Velt (formerly Snippyly) in 2020 to solve remote collaboration challenges.

Executive Team

Rakesh Goyal

Co-founder & CEO

9-year veteran of Google as a Product Manager; Y Combinator alumnus.

Solène Oudet

Co-founder

Former Staff UX Designer at Google; design and product lead.

Business Model

Revenue Model

Usage-based (Monthly Active Connections - MACs) and tiered subscriptions.

Pricing Tiers

Hacker

Free

100 MACs, all features (15+), basic webhooks, for dev environments.

Growth

Custom

Contract-based MACs, Slack support, 99.999% Uptime SLA.

Enterprise

Custom

Data self-hosting, GDPR APIs, SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, isolated server, dedicated CSM.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

SaaS Developers
Enterprise Product Teams
Creative Tooling Companies
Marketing Agencies

Use Cases

Video Editors
Form Builders
Analytics Dashboards
Task Managers
Spreadsheet Applications
Session Replay Tools

Notable Customers

Heygen
Pendo
X
Customer.io

History & Milestones

2024

Expanded product offerings with AI-driven features and specialized plugins like the Claude Code plugin.

March 2023

Closed a $2.77 million Seed funding round led by Spider Capital and Y Combinator.

December 4, 2023

Public launch of the Velt JavaScript SDK, featured in TechCrunch.

January 2022

Joined Y Combinator as part of the Winter 2022 (W22) batch.

2020

Company founded in San Francisco, originally named Snippyly.

1 AI Tool by Velt

Velt

16h

Collab Spaces

A complete collaboration SDK that lets developers add contextual comments, notifications, multiplayer editing, presence, cursors, huddles, and recordings to any web product in minutes.