# Velt

> 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.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Rakesh Goyal (Co-founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~15-16 employees (distributed across the US, UK, and India)
- **Products:** Comments, Notifications, Presence & Live Cursors, Multiplayer Editing, Recordings
- **Notable:** Raised $2.77M seed round (2022) with Y Combinator and notable angels., Graduated Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch., Processed 500k+ reviews in production.

## Products & services

- **Comments** — Contextual, multi-threaded feedback on any element - pin, area, and inline comments with @mentions and attachments.
- **Notifications** — In-app and multi-channel alerts (email, Slack, Teams) that keep collaborators in sync.
- **Presence & Live Cursors** — Avatars, live cursors, selection, and follow mode showing who is where in real time.
- **Multiplayer Editing** — CRDT-based concurrent editing so multiple users can edit the same content without conflicts.
- **Recordings** — Async voice, video, and screen recordings with AI-generated transcripts.
- **Huddle** — Live audio/video calls embedded directly inside the product.
- **Review & Approval Suite** — Suggestions, staged approval flows, immutable audit trails, memory for precedent, and AI review agents for first-pass flagging.

## Achievements

- Raised $2.77M seed round (2022) with Y Combinator and notable angels.
- Graduated Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch.
- Processed 500k+ reviews in production.
- SOC 2 Type II certified and HIPAA-compliant, with data residency across 42 global regions.
- Adopted by major companies including Google, Pendo, and HeyGen.

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Launched a Cursor plugin that scaffolds real-time collaboration into an app in about ten minutes via an AI agent.
- **2025-01** — Repositioned toward a review-and-approval layer - comments, suggestions, approval flows, audit trail, memory, and AI review agents on top of the core collaboration primitives.

## Links

- Website: https://velt.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/veltjs
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/veltjs
- GitHub: https://github.com/velt-js
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@veltjs

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Last updated: 2026-07-02