Velvet
Velvet is a YC Fall 2025 (F25) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Velvet
Summary
Velvet curates and delivers video datasets to frontier AI labs training world models and conversational AI systems. It sources high-value video from individuals across everyday and specialized domains, then verifies each dataset for quality, uniqueness, and compliance before shipping it to customers. The work it replaces is the ad-hoc, unstructured process labs would otherwise use to find, vet, and ingest raw video data at scale.
Go-to-market
Frontier AI research labs and consumer AI companies buy datasets directly from Velvet; data contributors enter the pipeline by submitting samples through a self-serve intake form on the website.
From the Y Combinator listing
Data for world models
The platform where frontier research labs buy data for world models.
Facts
- B2B / B2B
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Lucas Tucker
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