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They definitively say that they are not looking to create a breakaway 'league/series/tour' but that they are a group of teams who are concerned about the race calendar and about the fact that the current sponsorship-lead model does little to protect teams when a sponsor decides to walk away.
They see that there are revenues out there (from TV mainly) that could/should be shared further with the teams (and that the teams can generate themselves from on-board technology) so Velon is essentially a more united front for teams to lobby for some of the changes that they might want.
Comparing directly to F1 and/or the Premier league is useful to a point but in those cases the teams hold more of the cards as they have more of the assets - the historical team identities, the top players and the fans. In cycling the assets are much more about the races - with the Tour being the biggest prize - which the teams have little or no say in controlling or shaping. They would like to change that a bit.
tl:dr lobby group for moar cash