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Velvet
ActiveTraining data for underserved domains
Fall 2025Founded 20253 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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This company has previously operated under “Inline”, “Lenscape”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.
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Training data for underserved domains
Founders · 2
Lucas MantovaniFounder
Co-founder, CEO of Velvet. Ex video data + youngest member @ Meta FAIR. CS honors @ UChicago. Brazilian olympiad medalist in Math + Physics.
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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