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Velvet

Fall 2025

Data for world models

Artificial IntelligenceB2BVideoMediaCreator Economy

About Company

The platform where frontier research labs buy data for world models.

Active Founders

Lucas Mantovani

Founder

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

Lucas Tucker

Founder

Co-founder, CTO of Velvet. Ex-engineer @ Adobe working on petabyte-scale content delivery. Math & CS @ UChicago. Building the single tool companies need to produce AI video.

Company Facts

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LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

Team Size2

Founded2025

StatusActive