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AI · February 27, 2024

Velvet

Make everyone a data engineer

Velvet launched on February 27, 2024 with 166 votes, #280 of 3,962 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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What it does

Query all your data in one place and ship real-time product features. Use our AI editor to make your data accessible and interoperable.

Velvet is now part of Arize, the enterprise platform for AI evaluation and observability.

Velvet made a developer gateway to analyze, evaluate, and monitor AI-powered features. Arize, the enterprise platform for AI evaluation and observability, acquired Velvet in 2025. Emma and Chris were the founders of Velvet, and joined forces with Arize to accelerate adoption of Arize's unified AI platform. Unified Observability and Evaluation Platform for AI. Arize helps you accelerate development of AI apps and agents, then perfect them in production. Open-source LLM tracing and evaluation to accelerate AI development. Seamlessly evaluate, experiment, and optimize AI applications in real time. LLM Gateway to provide model access, fallbacks, and spend tracking across 100+ LLMs. All in the…from usevelvet.com

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