Lucas Mantovani

Co-founder, CEO @Velvet

Co-founder

2025Co-founder· Velvet

Founder · since 2025

Company

Velvet

Role

Co-founder, CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Velvet

The multimodal data lab.

Experience

Career

Velvet
Co-founder
Co-founder, CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Fundação Estudar
Fellow - Tech · Brazil · 2022 – Present
2022
Meta
Research Engineer · New York, New York, United States · 2024 – 2025
2024
Meta
Software Engineering Intern · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2023
2023
University of Chicago
Machine Learning + Cognitive Science Research Assistant · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
Facebook
Web Engineering Intern · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2022
2022
UChicago Medicine
Machine Learning Research Assistant · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2021
2021
Stone
Software Engineer · São Paulo, Brazil · 2021
2021
Lola AI
Software Engineer · Tel Aviv, Israel · 2021
2021
Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago
Data Science Research Assistant · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020

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