Velvet: Training data for underserved domains

Velvet

Training data for underserved domains

Fall 2025

Active

Artificial Intelligence

Training data for underserved domains

Active Founders

Lucas Mantovani

Founder

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

Lucas Mantovani

Founder

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

Lucas Tucker

Founder

Co-founder, CTO of Velvet. Ex-engineer @ Adobe working on petabyte-scale content delivery. Math & CS @ UChicago. Creating transformative datasets for frontier AI labs.

Lucas Tucker

Founder

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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