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Velvet

Fall 2025 · Active

All-in-one tool for making AI videos

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

Velvet is the all-in-one tool for making AI videos. Our team has worked on video generation at Meta FAIR and infra at Adobe, and we’re building the single tool that companies need to produce AI video assets.

Founders

  • Lucas MantovaniFounder

    Co-founder, CEO of Velvet. Ex video generation + youngest member @ Meta FAIR. CS honors @ UChicago. Brazilian olympiad winner in Math + Physics. Building the single tool companies need to produce AI videos.

  • Lucas TuckerFounder

    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.