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Data for world models

The platform where frontier research labs buy data for world models.
Active Founders
Lucas Mantovani
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
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.
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Velvet
Founded:2025
Batch:Fall 2025
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:David Lieb