Velt is a San Francisco developer-tools startup that ships a full-stack SDK and APIs letting product teams embed contextual comments, notifications, presence, async recordings, huddles, and CRDT-based multiplayer editing directly inside their apps in days rather than months. Founded in 2020 by ex-Google product manager Rakesh Goyal and part of Y Combinator's W22 batch, Velt has evolved from a general collaboration toolkit into a review-and-approval layer where AI and humans review work together and nothing ships until a human approves. It is developer-first, enterprise-ready (SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA), and used by companies including Google, Pendo, HeyGen, and LambdaTest.
Rakesh Goyal is the co-founder and CEO of Velt, a Y Combinator (W22) startup building the collaboration layer for the internet. Velt ships a full-stack SDK that lets product teams drop contextual comments, notifications, presence, huddles, async recordings and CRDT-based multiplayer editing into their apps in days instead of months. Before Velt he spent roughly nine years as a product manager at Google, where he helped launch augmented reality in Google Maps and Search and worked across Payments, Access and the Next Billion Users initiative. He frames Velt's ambition simply: what Okta is to auth and Algolia is to search, Velt wants to be to collaboration.