# Velvet

> Velvet is a multimodal AI model R&D company (the "multimodal data lab") based in San Francisco, part of Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch. It partners with frontier AI labs and enterprises to build state-of-the-art video datasets and evaluation frameworks that improve models' spatial reasoning and interactive, low-latency capabilities. Founded by Lucas Mantovani (CEO, ex Meta FAIR video data) and Lucas Tucker (CTO, ex Adobe).

Velvet operates an invite-only platform for sourcing and contributing multimodal training data, with contributor payouts via Stripe and Wise. As of 2026-07-21 the company publishes no public API, developer documentation, SDK, or machine-readable specifications. This llms.txt was generated by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline from the company's public website; /.well-known/ paths and /llms.txt on velvetlab.ai all returned 404.

## Company

- [Website](https://velvetlab.ai): Velvet — World Model R&D
- [Alternate domain](https://velvet.video): Velvet — multimodal data
- [Contributor dashboard](https://velvetlab.ai/dashboard): Invite-only platform sign in / sign up
- [Privacy Policy](https://velvetlab.ai/privacy.html)
- [Terms of Service](https://velvetlab.ai/terms.html)

## Support

- [Support contact](mailto:support@velvet.video): Email support