About
Lucas Mantovani is co-founder and CEO of Velvet. He previously worked on video data systems at Meta's FAIR lab and earned a computer science degree with honors from University of Chicago. He was a Brazilian olympiad competitor in mathematics and physics.
Founder at VelvetYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Lucas went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was David Lieb, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Velvet's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Lucas can intro founders to Velvet's investors below.
Velvet's investors Β· 4
Co-founders at Velvet
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Lucas TuckerFounder