About Velvet
The platform where frontier research labs buy data to pass the audiovisual Turing test.
The platform where frontier research labs buy data to pass the audiovisual Turing test.
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
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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Lucas Mantovani
Co-founder, CEO of Velvet. Ex video data + youngest member @ Meta FAIR. CS honors @ UChicago. Brazilian olympiad medalist in Math + Physics.
LinkedInLucas 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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