VELA surfaces funded researchers, scores their fit, and tells you why they matter. Prospect with intelligence, not guesswork.
You're emailing PIs who lost funding last year. No signal on who's active, who's funded, or who's publishing.
Legacy tools give you a spreadsheet. You need context: what grants they hold, what techniques they use, what's changed.
By the time you find a new grant, three competitors have already emailed. Timing is the edge you're missing.
Search any institution. VELA maps every funded PI, their grant portfolio, publications, and research focus.
Our scoring engine ranks researchers by funding recency, publication velocity, grant size, and product fit signals.
Walk into every meeting knowing their latest grant, recent publications, and exactly which products align with their work.
Real-time intelligence from 8 public data sources, synthesized into actionable prospecting workflows.
Search 4,000+ institutions including cancer centers, core facilities, and medical schools. Multi-strategy name matching.
Every researcher scored 0–100 based on funding recency, publication velocity, grant amount, and technique relevance.
One-click profile expansion: full grant history, co-PI network, citation map, keyword extraction, and contact info.
D3 force-directed graph showing co-investigator relationships. See who collaborates with whom across institutions.
Drag-and-drop pipeline from prospecting to engaged. Persist contacts across sessions, track your entire territory.
Search by technique, reagent, or method. Find every PI working on CRISPR, HaloTag, or NanoBRET at any institution.
VELA is the AI overlay that connects to your existing CRM and reveals how your accounts are actually interconnected. Co-PI relationships, shared funding, overlapping research areas. Every contact becomes part of a living network.
Map co-PI relationships and watch how researchers cluster around shared techniques and funding areas.
| Capability | VELA | Static Databases | Generic Sales Tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live NIH/NSF grant data | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Publication scoring | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Co-PI network map | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Real-time priority scoring | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Built for life sciences reps | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
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