Vega
Vega is in a16z speedrun SR005. Based in New York, United States of America. Team of 2, founded in 2025.
Facts
- New York, United States of America
- 2
- 2025
About Vega
Summary
Vega is a New York-based social networking startup founded in 2025 that uses artificial intelligence to surface meaningful relationship recommendations. Users leave short written notes about the people they know, and in return receive notes others have written about them. The platform's models process these human-written observations to assemble what Vega calls "social orbits" — tightly curated groups of people a user is likely to benefit from knowing, ranked and contextualized by factors such as mutual connections, perceived trust, and shared experiences. The core premise is that honest, informal peer notes contain richer relationship signal than traditional social graph data, and that aggregating them at scale unlocks a new kind of people-discovery layer.
Business model
Vega currently appears to operate as a free consumer app, with a monetization model that has not been publicly disclosed. As the platform scales its relationship dataset, premium features or subscription tiers around enhanced discovery or matchmaking seem like plausible future revenue directions.
Go-to-market
Vega appears to target socially active individuals, likely younger adults, who are looking for more intentional ways to expand their personal and professional networks. The buying motion is consumer-driven, with a reciprocal note-exchange mechanic designed to encourage organic word-of-mouth growth and repeated engagement. Likely acquisition channels include social media and founder-led content, consistent with the team's active presence on TikTok, X, and Instagram.
Founders (2)
- Benjamin Lee
- Madeline Park
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