Variance is an AI-powered risk intelligence platform that detects, investigates, and enforces against fraud, user-generated content violations, and marketplace abuse across digital businesses. The pla
Variance is an AI-powered risk intelligence platform that detects, investigates, and enforces against fraud, user-generated content violations, and marketplace abuse across digital businesses. The platform integrates disparate behavioral signals, logs, and assets to reveal hidden risk patterns and surface threats in real time. Variance's AI agents enforce plain-English policies and automate end-to-end workflows so Trust & Safety and fraud teams can scale investigations and response. Their mission is to help companies build safer platforms by unifying safety technologies behind a single API and AI-driven decisioning layer.
Total raised
$3.2M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
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.
LinkedInLawrence Pan
Early software engineer at Variance, previously at Stripe, with experience building large-scale, developer-facing and financial infrastructure systems. As a founding engineer, he likely focuses on core platform architecture, integrations, and scalability.
LinkedInMichael Lin
Michael is an engineer who previously scaled online abuse solutions at Apple and Discord, focusing on spam, abuse, and safety systems for hundreds of millions of users. He co-founded Variance (formerly Intrinsic) to build scalable AI agents for Trust & Safety and fraud investigations.
Michael Lin
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