Variance
AI Agents for Fraud Review and Investigations
About Variance
Variance (formerly Intrinsic) builds AI investigative agents for risk and compliance. The platform automates end-to-end workflows for fraud reviews, AML, KYC/KYB, sanctions screening, and content moderation — collecting evidence from transaction data, company registries, PDF filings, sanctions lists, adverse media, and open web sources, then returning fully auditable decisions in minutes. Founded by former Apple Fraud Engineering (FEAR) team members, Variance serves financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies, helping Trust & Safety and compliance teams scale investigations with agentic AI behind a single API.
Open positions (8)
Research Engineer, Evals
Enterprise Account Executive
Enterprise Account Executive
Product Marketing Lead
Research Engineer, Judgment Systems
Senior Software Engineer
Business Development Representative
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$26M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
Karine Mellata
Karine is an engineer and Trust & Safety leader who previously worked on Apple's Fraud Engineering, Algorithmic Risk (FEAR) team, which evolved into Apple's Trust & Safety function, tackling spam, botting, account security, and developer fraud for over a billion users. She co-founded Intrinsic (now Variance) to build AI agents for investigations and fraud reviews and to make the internet safer, one line of code at a time.
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Michael Lin
Co-founder of Variance. Working to scale AI agents for investigations and fraud reviews.
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What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.