HireTop · Jan 2026
A profile of Verata describing the company as founded in 2025 in San Francisco, focused on PE deal sourcing, backchannel diligence, and executive intelligence.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Verata is a YC-backed B2B SaaS intelligence platform for private equity talent teams and executive search firms. It centralizes company and executive research, maps warm relationship paths, overlays tenure-linked transaction and revenue context, and replaces fragmented workflows across PitchBook, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, and ATS tools.
Primary product
Executive intelligence platform for PE talent and executive search teams
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Business Intelligence / Software
Sub-industry
Private equity and executive search intelligence
Offices
San Francisco, CA 94104 (548 Market St, Suite 35000)
New York, NY 10007 (1 World Trade Center, Floor 85)
Business model
B2B SaaS
Enterprise subscription licensing
Seat-based pricing
Funding
Stage
Seed / accelerator-backed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Mar 2025 · Y Combinator
Accelerator / incubator backing
Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Public materials describe a very small founder-led team building for search professionals, with an emphasis on verified sourcing, transparency, and running live pilots on real searches rather than offering a generic self-serve product.
Product & market
Pricing
Custom scoped to firm size and deployment breadth; seat-based enterprise pricing rather than a public rate card.
Differentiators
- —Continuous open-web collection with source links on every fact
- —Executive profiles tied to company financial context and tenure-mapped transactions
- —Warm-path / backchannel discovery from verified professional relationships rather than only LinkedIn connections
- —Transparent revenue estimates using comparable company analysis
- —Native search management / ATS workflow built in
- —Focused specifically on PE talent and executive search workflows
Customers
Private equity firms
PE talent teams
Executive search firms
Competitors
PitchBook
LinkedIn Recruiter
ZoomInfo
BoardEx
ATS systems
Tracxn
Scale & contact
Latest news
Y Combinator · Jan 2026
YC’s launch write-up describes Verata’s relationship intelligence product, warm-path discovery, and scale claims including 1.5M+ executive profiles and 30M+ mapped relationships.
FounderBeacon · May 2025
Reports that Verata secured $500K in funding on 2025-03-17 and explains the product’s AI-driven approach to identifying private companies and executive performance signals.
STEAL THIS. · Mar 2025
Analyzes Verata’s pitch, including the reported $500K raise, revenue-estimation engine, and claims around coverage of private-company executives.
Y Combinator · Mar 2025
YC launch post describing Verata as a unified private equity intelligence platform combining financial data and executive profiles to improve investment and talent decisions.
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