# Vellum

> Vellum is a New York-based AI development platform that helps companies build, evaluate, deploy, and monitor production-grade LLM applications and AI agents. Founded in early 2023 by three engineers who kept hitting the same wall - prototypes that demo well but break in production - Vellum gives teams a workflow builder, an evaluation suite, version-controlled deployments, and live monitoring so they can move AI from proof-of-concept to reliable production systems. The platform works with more than 150 companies including Drata, Redfin, Swisscom, and Headspace, and raised a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund in July 2025.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Akash Sharma (Co-Founder & CEO), Sidd Seethepalli (Co-Founder & CTO), Noa Flaherty (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~33 employees
- **Products:** AI Workflow Builder, Evaluation Suite, Prompt Engineering & Model Comparison, Deployment & Version Control, Monitoring & Observability
- **Notable:** Raised a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund in July 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $25-29.5M., Grew to serve more than 150 companies across industries including healthcare, real estate, telecom, and compliance., Helped Drata cut security-questionnaire response time by 97% and run 28,000+ isolated vector databases.

## Products & services

- **AI Workflow Builder** — A visual UI builder plus SDK for designing, visualizing, and testing the logic behind LLM apps and multi-step AI workflows, including RAG and document retrieval.
- **Evaluation Suite** — An end-to-end testing framework to quantitatively measure model and prompt quality and catch failures and edge cases before they reach production.
- **Prompt Engineering & Model Comparison** — Tools to write, version, and compare prompts across all major LLM providers, with semantic search and fine-tuning support.
- **Deployment & Version Control** — Safe deployment management that lets teams update AI logic without risky redeploys, with full version control.
- **Monitoring & Observability** — Real-time monitoring of AI performance in production with feedback loops, including scheduled nightly evaluation jobs via the Vellum SDK.
- **Vellum for Agents** — An agent builder that takes a plain-language description of a task, asks clarifying questions, connects to your tools, handles the logic, and shows exactly what the agent is doing at each step.

## Achievements

- Raised a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund in July 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $25-29.5M.
- Grew to serve more than 150 companies across industries including healthcare, real estate, telecom, and compliance.
- Helped Drata cut security-questionnaire response time by 97% and run 28,000+ isolated vector databases.
- Powered Redfin AI features deployed to millions of users across 14 markets.
- Enabled DeepScribe to cut clinician note-iteration time by 20-40%.
- Achieved SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 attestations plus HIPAA compliance for handling sensitive enterprise data.

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Closed a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund to expand the platform and move into new verticals and global markets.
- **2025-07** — Reported working with over 150 companies and momentum around its agent-building product, Vellum for Agents.

## Links

- Website: https://vellum.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vellumai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/vellum_ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/vellum-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vellum-ai

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Last updated: 2026-06-10