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Variance

San Francisco, CA, USA8+ employeesSeed raised
AI Agents for Fraud Review and Investigations

AI Agents for Fraud Review and Investigations

YC W23

About the Company

At Intrinsic, we are using disruptive technologies to solve some of the oldest and most complex problems of our digital age in anti-abuse, fraud prevention, and brand safety. Online abuse is an elaborate video game of cat-and-mouse. We move fast, and so do our adversaries.

Tech Stack

  • AI services (LLM infra: hosting, fine-tuning and operationalization of open source foundational models)
  • Frontend: NextJS, Typescript, and React
  • Backend: NextJS and Python for ML inference
  • Infrastructure hosted on GCP with Kubernetes and orchestrated using Terraform.
  • ML services and training: Python
  • Real-time and streaming technologies

Founders

Michael Lin
Michael Lin

Co-founder of Variance. Previously scaled online abuse solutions for hundreds of millions of users at Apple and Discord. Working to scale AI agents for investigations and fraud reviews.

Karine Mellata
Karine Mellata

Co-Founder at Variance (fka Intrinsic). Making the internet safer, one line of code at a time.

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