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Veris AI

Commercial
medium confidence
veris.ai ↗ · Status: active confirmed · Founded 2025

Veris AI sells a high-fidelity simulation platform plus a production runtime that let enterprises train, evaluate, and govern AI agents against mocked enterprise tools before and during production, with support for reinforcement learning / fine-tuning pipelines. It positions itself as the enterprise 'environment layer' that agent builders lack.

Key facts
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA, USAreported cite
Headcount band
1-10reported cite
Total raised
$8.5Mconfirmed cite
Last round
Seed, $8.5M, June 2025confirmed cite
SOC 2
claimedreported cite
What they sell
environmentsconfirmed cite
Open source
noreported cite
Deployment
managed-hosted (Veris Cloud), self-hosted (customer VPC on AWS/GCP/Azure), and on-premconfirmed cite

Scale & velocity

Current headcount
1-10 (approx 9) as of 2026-06-07reported cite
Headcount growth
unknown
Open roles
unknown
Other locations
unknown
Distributed / remote
unknown

Research depth

Has researchers
yesconfirmed cite
Researcher count
~2 applied research engineers (counted from team page) plus two co-founders with research/PhD backgroundsestimated cite
Backgrounds
CEO Mehdi Jamei: PhD EECS UC Berkeley; previously led agentic AI at System and Workmate, CTO Andi Partovi: PhD (brain-computer interfaces) University of Melbourne; ex-Solutions Architect at Google; ex-founder/CTO KeyLead Healthreported cite
Papers / benchmarks
Technical Report: How Reinforcement Fine-tuning Trains Enterprise-Grade Domain-specific Agents (Dec 2025) - https://veris.ai/blog/technical-report-reinforcement-learning-fine-tuning-for-enterprise-ai-agentsreported cite

Capital

Total raised
$8.5Mconfirmed cite
Last round
Seed, $8.5M, June 2025confirmed cite
Investors
Decibel Ventures (lead), Acrew Capital (lead), The House Fund, Ian Livingstone, Idris Mokhtarzada (Rocket Money), Dorothy Changconfirmed cite
Valuation
unknown
Revenue signals
unknown

Security & compliance

SOC 2
claimed-unverifiedreported cite
Other certifications
unknown
Security page
unknown

Product

What they sell
environmentsconfirmed cite
Open source
noreported cite
License
unknown
Deployment model
managed-hosted (Veris Cloud), self-hosted (customer VPC on AWS/GCP/Azure), and on-premconfirmed cite
Maturity
GAreported cite
Notable customers
Consumer fintech company (unnamed) - compliant chatbots self-claimed HR tech / executive-assistant agent company (unnamed) self-claimed Manufacturer - supply chain agent (unnamed) self-claimed cite

Buyer analysis

Best fit: Enterprise teams building agents for messy multi-step internal workflows who need safe simulated environments to evaluate, train (RL/RFT), and govern those agents before production.

How we verified this

Company identity is correct: this is the enterprise 'environment layer' vendor described in the directory note, confirmed by Decibel Ventures' investment thesis quote ('building the environment layer that enterprise AI has been missing') and consistent product positioning. Funding is the strongest claim: $8.5M Seed led by Decibel Ventures and Acrew Capital, announced at stealth emergence in June 2025, is corroborated by the official BusinessWire press release plus FinSMES, Pulse2, citybiz, Yahoo Finance and The New Stack, upgraded total_raised, last_round, and notable_investors to 'confirmed'. Headcount (~9, 1-10 band) is consistent between the LinkedIn public snippet and the team page; kept 'reported' (not a 200+ overreach). SOC 2 Type II appears only on the vendor's own FAQ with no trust page or auditor/registry confirmation, so it remains claimed-unverified/reported. Notable customers are described only by category in press and are unnamed on the site, correctly kept self-claimed with no frontier-lab ties. Downgraded the publications field (vendor blog, not peer-reviewed) and trimmed several founder-background specifics that rested on self-published bio pages rather than independent sources. focus_areas all fall within the controlled vocabulary. Overall confidence: medium.

Related vendors

Sources

  1. veris.ai/about · 2026-06-07, Team list (founders + ~9 staff), product description
  2. veris.ai/faqs · 2026-06-07, Deployment models, SOC 2 Type 2 claim, products (Simulation Platform + Veris Runtime)
  3. veris.ai/ · 2026-06-07, Product positioning, cloud partners, careers link, SOC 2 mention
  4. veris.ai/blog/technical-report-reinforcement-learning-fine-tuning-for-en · 2026-06-07, Technical report Dec 2025, authors, RFT methodology
  5. www.alleywatch.com/2025/06/veris-ai-enterprise-ai-agents-agentic-simulat · 2026-06-07, Seed funding $8.5M, investors, customer categories, June 2025
  6. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250603868539/en/ · 2026-06-07, Emergence from stealth press release, $8.5M (fetch timed out; corroborated via other outlets)
  7. www.citybiz.co/article/701797/ · 2026-06-07, Idris Mokhtarzada angel participation in seed round
  8. www.linkedin.com/company/veris-ai · 2026-06-07, Public snippet: HQ San Francisco, 1-10 employees, founded 2025
  9. mjamei.github.io/ · 2026-06-07, Mehdi Jamei background: PhD UC Berkeley EECS, prior roles
  10. www.linkedin.com/in/andi-partovi/ · 2026-06-07, Andi Partovi background
  11. qconsf.com/speakers/andipartovi · 2026-06-07, Andi Partovi PhD Melbourne, ex-Google GenAI Solution Architect, ex-KeyLead Health
  12. www.decibel.vc/articles/veris-ai-why-the-environment-is-everything-for-a · 2026-06-07, Lead investor thesis / environment-layer positioning
Last updated 2026-06-07 · Every quantitative field carries a source and a confidence tag. Fields we could not source publicly are marked unknown, never estimated. See the methodology.