Building the state-of-the-art model for software design
Variant is building the state-of-the-art model for software design. Our first milestone, icon generation, already surpasses existing approaches. The company is founded by Ben South Lee, former VP of Product Design at unicorn companies Postmates ($5B exit) and Avara ($2.5B market cap), and Daniel Bulhosa Solórzano, Staff ML engineer at Square and Cruise.
Active Founders
Benjamin South Lee, Founder
Building Variant. Formerly founded two companies which were acquired by Postmates, where I was VP of Product Design, and Avara, where I was SVP of Product and Design.
Experiments: bensouth.com
Daniel Bulhosa Solorzano, Founder
Formerly led simulation & testing for emergency vehicle, human controlling traffic, and school bus interactions at Cruise. Worked on generative AI for simulating road actor behavior in the same. Previously led machine learning at the Square Ecommerce team, where he built the ML features of the Photo Studio mobile app and the PDF to catalog importer feature.
