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Variant

Creative intelligence

Y CombinatorFall 2024ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsDesign ToolsAI

What they do

Solution

Provides creative intelligence technology to support creative decision-making.

Founders

Benjamin South Lee
Co-Founder, CEO

Building Variant. Formerly founded two companies which were acquired by Postmates, where I was VP of Product Design, and Avara, where I was SVP of Product and Design. Experiments: bensouth.com

Daniel Bulhosa Solorzano
Co-Founder

Formerly led simulation & testing for emergency vehicle, human controlling traffic, and school bus interactions at Cruise. Worked on generative AI for simulating road actor behavior in the same. Previously led machine learning at the Square Ecommerce team, where he built the ML features of the Photo Studio mobile app and the PDF to catalog importer feature.

Open roles 4

Founding Frontend Engineer (Staff)
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $180K - $235K · 0.10% - 1.25%
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Founding Agentic Backend Engineer (Senior / Staff)
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $180K - $235K · 0.10% - 1.25%
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Applied Researcher
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $150K - $300K · 0.50% - 1.75%
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Storyteller (Short-form)
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $110K - $150K · 0.10% - 0.50%
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