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Velvet

2+ employeesSeed raised
Data for world models

Data for world models

YC F25

About the Company

Velvet provides state of the art video data to frontier AI labs. Our team is comprised of former ML researchers who worked at Meta FAIR and Adobe, and we are solving important data challenges in the world models and robotics fields.

Our culture is very scrappy, we work long hours and wear multiple hats. If you are looking for a one-dimensional job that involves sitting behind a desk all day and doing one task, we are not a good fit.

However, if you are a fan of the forward deployed model and are willing to travel, work on ops-heavy projects, and help train state of the art models, we may be the right company for you.

Tech Stack

PyTorch, Supabase, React, Vercel, Claude Code, AWS, (whatever you can add to our tech stack)

Founders

Lucas Mantovani
Lucas Mantovani

Co-founder, CEO of Velvet. Ex video data + youngest member @ Meta FAIR. CS honors @ UChicago. Brazilian olympiad medalist in Math + Physics.

Lucas Tucker
Lucas Tucker

Co-founder, CTO of Velvet. Ex-engineer @ Adobe working on petabyte-scale content delivery. Math & CS @ UChicago. Creating transformative datasets for frontier AI labs.

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