Vercel Changelog · Jun 2026
Vercel announced official Velt support in Chat SDK, letting bots read and reply inside Velt comment threads and map documents and annotations to channels and messages.
Add powerful collaboration features to your product ridiculously fast.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Velt is a San Francisco-based B2B collaboration and review infrastructure company that embeds comments, approvals, review agents, memory, audit trails, presence, multiplayer editing, recordings, and huddles into web apps. It is positioned as governance-focused collaboration for products where AI or humans need sign-off before changes ship.
Primary product
Review and approval SDK for adding in-app collaboration and governance features
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50 employees
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Collaboration SDK / review and approval infrastructure
Offices
San Francisco, CA 94108, United States (HQ)
650 California St, San Francisco, CA 94108, United States
550 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
San Francisco, CA 94111, United States
Business model
Usage-based SaaS
Free tier
Enterprise contracts
Self-hosted enterprise add-ons
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3.3M
Latest round
Seed · Dec 2023
Latest amount
$2.8M
Dec 2023 · Y Combinator, Spider Capital, Amino Capital, First Row Partners
Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Founding UI Engineer
Founding Solutions Engineer
Work & culture
Mission-driven, founder-led, and very product/engineering oriented. Public messaging emphasizes shipping quickly, direct access to founders, ex-Googler roots, and strong hands-on customer support such as dedicated Slack channels and weekend migrations.
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based pricing on monthly active documents (MADs), with a free tier and contract-based Growth/Enterprise plans.
Differentiators
- —Governance-focused collaboration and approval workflows rather than general realtime engagement
- —Prebuilt components for comments, approvals, review agents, memory, audit trails, presence, recording, and huddles
- —Self-hosting/data-provider model keeps PII on customer infrastructure
- —Enterprise compliance features including SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA workloads/BAA, data residency, and 99.999% SLA
- —Fast integration via SDK and MCP tooling across React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, and HTML
- —Usage-based MAD billing instead of seat- or connection-based pricing
Technology
React
Next.js
Angular
Vue
TypeScript
JavaScript
Web Components
CRDT
Yjs
Node.js
MongoDB
AWS S3
Slack
Pendo
Playwright
Webflow
Figma
GitHub
Claude Code
Cursor
Customers
Google
Pendo
Trumpet
Leadpages
Bigtincan
eqtble
Awesomic
CloudFactory
Vareto
That's the one
Competitors
Liveblocks
Ably
Firebase
Cord
Tiptap
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$5M
Estimated monthly visits
17.8K
Traffic estimate as of Apr 2025
Latest news
LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Rakesh Goyal announced a Claude Code plugin that adds real-time collaboration to apps in under 10 minutes, highlighting Velt's comments, presence, CRDT sync, cursors, and notifications.
Velt blog · Feb 2026
Velt framed itself as a full collaboration SDK versus Ably's messaging infrastructure, emphasizing ready-made collaboration components, MAD-based billing, and real-time permission checks.
Velt blog · Jan 2026
Velt promoted its Loom-style embedded recording features, AI transcription and summaries, and quick integration for product teams.
Velt blog · Jan 2026
Velt published a guide focused on enterprise requirements such as SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA BAAs, data residency, customer-managed encryption, and 99.999% uptime.
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