The ontology engine for enterprise AI
Velum builds domain ontologies that power enterprise AI. Whether your data lives in documents or databases, we help you define ontologies and enforce them through data contracts across modern data mesh architectures.
Based in San Francisco, we're researchers who believe enterprises need better semantic infrastructure—and hypergraphs are the right foundation.
Backed by Y Combinator (W26).
What drives us
Research rigor
We bring academic discipline to product development. Every design decision is grounded in first principles and empirical evidence.
Technical excellence
We build systems that are correct, performant, and elegant. Hypergraphs aren't just a feature—they're the right abstraction.
Customer partnership
We build with our design partners, not just for them. Your hardest data problems shape our roadmap.
Open by default
We contribute to open source, publish our research, and believe the best ideas come from transparency.
Meet the team
Alen Rubilar-Muñoz
Co-founder
Research background spanning knowledge representation, distributed systems, and machine learning.
Benjamin Muñoz-Cerro
Co-founder
Research background in computational methods and data-intensive systems.