Prior to Vela, Yigit Ihlamur worked in Google’s Cloud division, at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, on product management, strategy, operations, growth, startup and reseller partnerships. Yigit’s tenure at Google also included several years spent in the company’s European headquarters in Dublin, working on technical operations for G Suite. Yigit received his master’s degree in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning from the University of Oxford, and his industrial engineering degree from Koç University. As one of the founders of Vela Partners, he leads Ventech engineering efforts and works as a general partner.

Yigit invests in AI/ML, robotics, developer tools, SaaS and future of work.

Firefly, Grabango, Jobox