Velocity

Velocity develops real-time monetization and contextual advertising infrastructure for AI applications. Its platform analyzes each user message in a conversational AI product to derive intent and context, matches the most relevant advertiser and offer, generates tailored creative in milliseconds, and delivers the resulting ad natively inside the conversation flow.

The product is organized into three components: an AI ad network that connects direct advertisers and premium demand sources and generates AI creative matched to user intent; a mediation layer that runs real-time auctions across demand sources and handles yield optimization, placement control, pacing, frequency capping, and A/B testing; and a Conversation Manager, a conversation abstraction layer that extracts real-time intent and context signals, filters personally identifiable and sensitive information, and routes anonymized signals to demand sources. Velocity positions this as a monetization layer that lets AI developers expand free usage and generate revenue beyond subscriptions, offsetting model compute costs without pushing users behind strict subscription paywalls.

Founding story

Velocity was founded by Tal Shoham (CEO), Amir Shaked (COO), and Nimrod Zota (CPO). Partner commentary on the company website cites the team's background building and scaling platforms at ironSource and Unity.

Business model

Velocity operates a two-sided advertising platform: AI application developers integrate its SDK to monetize conversations, while advertisers and demand partners buy access to real-time, intent-driven audiences through the ad network and mediation auction.

Advertising-based monetization; Velocity intermediates between advertiser demand and developer supply via an ad network and real-time auction/mediation layer. Sources do not state specific pricing or revenue-share terms.

Traction

Coverage of the July 2026 seed round states the platform has been deployed to live international AI systems serving millions of daily active users. The company website features testimonials from partners including Vybs, Liner, and Kolbo.AI.

Latest developments

In July 2026, Velocity announced a $27 million seed round led by NFX and Red Dot Capital Partners, to be used for machine learning optimization, scaling real-time intent-parsing data engines, and commercial expansion. The company blog published posts in July 2026 on AI monetization infrastructure, intent and contextual signals, and ChatGPT ads.