Velvet

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Bringing data realism to frontier models.

Fall 2025Founded 20253 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Bringing data realism to frontier models.

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Lucas MantovaniFounder

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

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Lucas TuckerFounder

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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