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Variance

Winter 2023 · Active

World-Class Tooling for Trust & Safety teams

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2022

Team size: 8

About

Build safer platforms with Intrinsic. Get access to the best safety technologies from one unified API. Enable your Trust & Safety team to tell cohesive stories from policy to product, to enforcement. Michael and Karine first met two years ago at Apple’s Fraud Engineering, Algorithmic Risk team, which evolved to become Apple’s Trust & Safety function. We are both engineers and helped solve online abuse problems, including spam, botting, account security, and developer fraud for Apple’s customer base of over a billion users.

Founders

  • Karine MellataFounder

    Co-Founder at Variance (fka Intrinsic). Making the internet safer, one line of code at a time.

  • Michael LinFounder

    Co-founder of Intrinsic. Previous experience scaling online abuse solutions for hundreds of millions of users at Apple and Discord. Working to help make the internet a safer place for everyone.