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.