Knowasiak01 / 16 · Seed
KnowasiakSeed round · confidential
Verified businesses. 190 countries. Built in 18 months. Zero ad spend.
Executive summary
Consumer social can't verify a business. 300M+ companies need a legitimate, searchable global presence.
Free verified presence, then paid $29 & $99/mo tiers. The business pays, recurring.
Mandatory verification no ad-funded network can copy. 640+ already verified.
190 countries, 95M requests/mo, 640+ verified, $0 paid, in 18 months.
One founder plus an AI agent fleet reached 190 countries. The raise builds the team.
Raising $3M seed for a ~24-month runway to the default B2B network.
01 · The problem
The giants optimize for attention. Attention brings bots, noise, and users who never pay.
Throwaway accounts inflate every platform. You cannot do business with a profile picture.
A viral post is worthless by morning. So is the user it brought in.
LinkedIn asks who wants a job. Not who to do business with, anywhere, right now.
02 · The thesis
Businesses live online when the network is built for them. We apply that to identity and reputation, not transactions.
Why now: every business needs a legitimate, searchable global presence, and AI just made it possible for a tiny team to build that network for the whole world.
03 · The product
Not a résumé. A living, searchable presence that search engines and AI assistants cite.
The business, with documents. Not a checkbox.
Long-form, public, and indexable from day one.
By buyers and partners, through search and AI answers.
Every post makes the profile harder to ignore.
04 · Business model
The business pays. Buyers and partners use it free, which is exactly what makes the paid side worth buying.
Value exchange: Verify Publish Get found Upgrade recurring revenue that expands across tiers with no added acquisition cost.
05 · Traction
Organic, verified, compounding. Not bought.
100% organic · $0 paid acquisition
06 · Who's already here
From solo studios to names you know, across 190 countries. Every one document-verified.
and 620+ more verified companies across 190 countries
07 · Landscape
LinkedIn runs on recruiting. Alibaba is transactional, not identity. ZoomInfo holds data, not a living verified presence.
08 · Unit economics
Illustrative: $29/mo tier · ~85% gross margin · ~3% monthly churn → ~33-month lifetime. Lock with live cohorts before sending.
Multiple tiers, from free verified presence up to premium intelligence and analytics, raise revenue per account with no added acquisition cost.
09 · Roadmap
Shipped, next, and funded. Each phase deepens lock-in and lifts revenue per account.
10 · Market
The top of the funnel is sourced. The number we defend is built bottom-up from the funnel we already run.
Every formal business worldwide seeking online legitimacy and cross-border connection. The revenue pools we touch, professional networking, B2B data and verification, run into tens of billions a year.
Businesses already publishing and transacting in the channels we serve today, inside the markets we have reached.
From 640+ verified companies today and a funnel already reaching 190 countries, converting a modest share to $29–$99/mo tiers. At ~10,000 paying businesses that is ≈$4.8M ARR, a fraction of one percent of the TAM. Built bottom-up from the funnel we run, not a slice of the market. Illustrative until locked with live cohorts.
11 · The team
AGBuilt and run by a single founder directing a fleet of AI agents. The output of a twenty-person team, at the cost of one.
If one founder with AI leverage reaches 190 countries bootstrapped, capability was never the constraint. Headcount and capital were. Remove both.
12 · The plan for the money
Front-of-envelope: blended ~$40/mo per paying business across tiers. ARR and cohort figures are illustrative and locked with live cohort data before diligence.
13 · The ask
Turn a bootstrapped, verified network into the default place a business proves it is real and gets found.
What's in it for you: category-defining networks compound, and the winner in verified B2B identity owns a global standard. Alibaba became indispensable to global trade; Knowasiak becomes indispensable to global business identity. Seed today prices the category before it is contested. Fund the team, and we make it unignorable.
Knowasiak · knowasiak.com · seed round open
Appendix · read before you challenge a number
Server-side HTTP requests to the platform. Not visits, not users. The honest top-of-funnel signal.
Individual accounts on the platform today. Distinct from the verified businesses below.
Businesses that passed document verification. The number that actually monetizes.
Countries with at least one active account. "Reached"; the raise turns reach into active use.
Backup available on request: cohort retention, churn by tier, verification-funnel conversion, LTV derivation, and full competitive teardown. Held back to keep the story tight, ready in Q&A.