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Benjamin Muñoz Cerro Left Physics for a Startup - and Kept the Scientific Method
A homemade particle detector in Chiguayante led to Stanford, Harvard and a hard turn into software. Now the Velum Labs co-founder is running startup experiments with the habits of a physicist.
Velum Labs
Velum Labs is a Y Combinator-backed San Francisco startup building an operating system for data quality. Its platform continuously watches a company's data stack, catches when metrics and definitions diverge, traces the root cause through query lineage, proposes automated fixes, and then writes enforceable data contracts so the same break does not recur. Founded in 2025 by Chilean-born childhood friends Benjamin Munoz-Cerro (CEO) and Alen Rubilar-Munoz (CTO), the company is already in production at regulated fintechs monitoring 200+ tables tied to more than $1B in assets.