Zoe Lynch

Founder @ VARIANT | Social Game Platform for Storytellers, Creators & Brands | Former EA, Dolby, Amazon

Founder

Variant· Speedrun 005 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2025Founder· VARIANT

Founder · since 2025

Company

VARIANT

Role

Founder

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Variant

Variant is the Social Platform for Playable Content that tells stories the internet hasn't seen before.

Speedrun 005

Experience

Career

VARIANT
Founder
Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
Amazon
Software Development Engineer Intern · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 2024
2024
Stanford University
RL/AI Research Assistant Kayvon Fatahalian's Graphics Lab · Stanford, California, United States · 2023 – 2024
2023
Electronic Arts (EA)
Simulation Gameplay SWE Intern · Redwood City, California, United States · 2023
2023
Dolby Laboratories
Visual Computing SWE Intern · California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
Bumble
Bumble Campus Ambassador · Stanford, California, United States · 2023
2023
Stanford HCI Group
Research Assistant · 2022 – 2023
2022
Electronic Arts (EA)
Game Design Intern @Maxis Studios | Sims · 2022
2022
OFC
Creative Consultant · 2022
2022

Bio

I’m Zoe, an AI researcher and Stanford master’s graduate with experience at EA, Dolby, Amazon, with research spanning three Stanford labs in gaming, AR, and artificial intelligence. I founded Variant because I’ve always loved stories—but with word-processing differences growing up, “words” didn’t work for me. Games did. Games became my language of expression. What we’re building now is exactly what younger me was searching for: a way to create, tell and share stories playfully.