Velvet: The multimodal data lab.

Velvet

The multimodal data lab.

Fall 2025

Active

Artificial Intelligence

The multimodal data lab.

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-eng @ Adobe working on realtime content delivery. Honors Math & CS @ UChicago.

Lucas Tucker

Founder

Co-founder, CTO of Velvet. Ex-eng @ Adobe working on realtime content delivery. Honors Math & CS @ UChicago.

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Jobs at Velvet

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Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA, US

$175K - $200K

1.00% - 2.50%

Any (new grads ok)

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Founding Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CA, US

$180K - $200K

1.00% - 4.00%

Any (new grads ok)

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Research Scientist

San Francisco, CA, US

$250K - $300K

1.00% - 4.00%

1+ years

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Velvet

Founded:2025

Batch:Fall 2025

Team Size:4

Status:

Active

Location:San Francisco

Primary Partner:David Lieb