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Our story

Built by engineers who got fed up waiting for Jira to load.

Velostarted in 2023 when four friends on a remote team realised every PM tool either moved at glacial speed or forced them into a rigid structure that didn't match how modern software teams actually work. We set out to build a tool that felt more like a well-designed IDE than a spreadsheet.

12,000+
Teams shipping with Velo
94M+
Issues tracked this year
99.97%
Uptime SLA, guaranteed
$0
Vendor lock-in

What we believe

Speed is a feature

Every millisecond of latency is a tiny tax on your team's focus. We obsess over performance like it's a product requirement — because it is.

Clarity over ceremony

Status meetings exist to compensate for bad tooling. Velo makes the work visible so you can cancel the standup.

Your data, your rules

No dark patterns, no data selling, no surprise retention policies. Enterprise-grade security for every plan.

Built by engineers, for engineers

Our founding team spent five years in the trenches before building this. Every design decision comes from lived frustration.

The team

A distributed team of engineers, designers, and product thinkers across five time zones.

WZ

Wei Zhang

Co-founder & CEO

Previously engineering lead for developer workflow products. Ships code and strategy in equal measure.

SC

Sara Chen

Co-founder & Design

Designed Figma's collaboration layer before leaving to fix how teams see their work.

OH

Omar Hassan

Head of Engineering

Distributed systems at scale. Believes the most important code is the code you don't have to write.

LP

Lena Park

Head of Product

Two startups, one acquisition, and a very strong opinion about sprint planning ceremonies.

Join us in building the future of work

We're hiring engineers, designers, and developer advocates. Remote-first, async by default.

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