Kevin Vela JD

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Biography

Mr. Kevin Vela serves as Managing Partner at Vela Wood. He is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Blossom Street Ventures. He is the Founder at Dallas Angel Network. He serves as Founding Partner at Vela Wood. He focuses his practice in the areas of startups, corporate law, capital raises, investment funds, and real estate investment activities. Kevin serves as general counsel for a number of small and mid-sized businesses, providing representation for business transactions, as well as day-to-day guidance on legal and operational issues. Previously, he served as Advisor at Need. Kevin regularly advises on corporate governance matters, private fund formations and M&A activities. In recent years, he has represented both startups and investors in over $50M in seed, angel and venture rounds. Kevin speaks, reads and writes fluent Spanish, and is able to provide bilingual representation on request. He is active in the legal and business community, and regularly writes about startup and small business issues in the VW blog. Kevin was named a 2014 and 2015 Super Lawyers Rising Star and is a Texas Bar Foundation Fellow, an honor granted to 1/3 of 1% of Texas attorneys. He holds JD and BBA degrees from University of Texas.