About Us

Velaku’s ‘ah-ha’ moment came when we realized there was a unique opportunity to create real change for employee communications by leveraging the worlds most ubiquitous platform – Microsoft365 – in a way no one else was doing. We wanted to deliver an employee experience inside the workplace that would hold to the same standards that employees get outside of the workplace by leveraging the ecosystem employees use most: Microsoft 365. 

So we got to work putting our global, enterprise-scale experience into the development of a new employee communications solution. The result? A superb workplace solution natively embedded in Microsoft365 – including SharePoint, Teams and the new Viva. Velaku reshapes the employee experience in the way employee and HR communications happens – naturally, conversationally – directly in the flow of work.

What the heck is a Velaku?

We know that a Velaku doesn’t exist in nature. But the root of the name does – in the Italian word ‘vela’, meaning ‘sail.’  And that’s because our Founder is an avid racing sailor.

Little known trivia: our solution was initially launched as HRConnect365, but customers told us they liked Velaku better. Since Velaku had been our company name all along, we changed the solution name to match.

Velaku is available in the Microsoft AppSource Marketplace and the Women In Cloud Solutions Marketplace, where we launched after graduating from a nearly year-long Microsoft Accelerator to co-build, co-market and co-sell Velaku. We fully leverage the scale, reach and resources of Microsoft for our customers.

We’re thrilled to have the power of our Microsoft Partnership behind our mission to transform the way companies communicate with and engage their employees.

Driven by our philosophy that employees should be treated more like customers, our goal is quite simple: to improve the employee experience through communications and make it as seamless and comfortable as the customer experience. And that means giving communications and HR professionals the tools within Microsoft365 to engage employees. The potential for communications now goes far beyond the decades-old use of mere intranets, portals and email.

Velaku makes it faster and easier for companies to create, deploy and distribute content and messages to employees – across multiple channels inside and outside Microsoft 365 – translating into better employee engagement and effectiveness.