Velvet - Motivate Venture Capital

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Founded 2023
Invested in 2023

Team

Emma Lawler (CEO)

Chris Hendel (Co-Founder, CTO)

Overview

Velvet is a real-time personalize engine for any product. Using Velvet, companies can unify data from any source, segment customers, and identify insights to ship personalized features faster, increase conversion, reduce churn, and build better products.

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How do you generate revenue? Is it Transactional, Recurring, or Repeatable? *

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