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Variant

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San Francisco, CA, USAFounded 20205+ employeesPrivate
Founded by Jesse Walden, Spencer NoonCreative intelligence

Variant is a web3-focused early-stage fund. According to the firm, the next iteration of the internet would turn consumers into owners. Variant was established in 2020 in New York, United States.

YC F24

About the Company

Software should be beautiful.

Variant generates software that’s actually well designed. Instead of a confined conversation, it creates endless designs from a single idea. You can freely explore, discover directions you wouldn’t have thought of, and build better software as a result.

We call this generative creativity. And it’s how creating software should work.

Founders

Daniel Bulhosa Solorzano
Daniel Bulhosa Solorzano

Formerly led simulation & testing for emergency vehicle, human controlling traffic, and school bus interactions at Cruise. Worked on generative AI for simulating road actor behavior in the same. Previously led machine learning at the Square Ecommerce team, where he built the ML features of the Photo Studio mobile app and the PDF to catalog importer feature.

Benjamin South Lee
Benjamin South Lee

Building Variant. Formerly founded two companies which were acquired by Postmates, where I was VP of Product Design, and Avara, where I was SVP of Product and Design. Experiments: bensouth.com

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