Knowasiak
01 / 16 · Seed

Seed round · confidential

The B2B
social network.

Verified businesses. 190 countries. Built in 18 months. Zero ad spend.

190countries
95Mrequests / mo
640+verified companies

Executive summary

The verified network every business needs, and no one else built.

Pain > market

Consumer social can't verify a business. 300M+ companies need a legitimate, searchable global presence.

Business model

Free verified presence, then paid $29 & $99/mo tiers. The business pays, recurring.

Unfair advantage

Mandatory verification no ad-funded network can copy. 640+ already verified.

Traction

190 countries, 95M requests/mo, 640+ verified, $0 paid, in 18 months.

Team

One founder plus an AI agent fleet reached 190 countries. The raise builds the team.

The ask

Raising $3M seed for a ~24-month runway to the default B2B network.

The problem

Consumer social was never built for business.

The giants optimize for attention. Attention brings bots, noise, and users who never pay.

Fake by default

Throwaway accounts inflate every platform. You cannot do business with a profile picture.

No memory

A viral post is worthless by morning. So is the user it brought in.

Résumé, not reach

LinkedIn asks who wants a job. Not who to do business with, anywhere, right now.

The thesis

Alibaba built B2B commerce. Nobody built B2B social.

Businesses live online when the network is built for them. We apply that to identity and reputation, not transactions.

Consumer · decays
  • Worth cents in ads
  • Churns in days
  • Bots and fake accounts
  • Rewards outrage
Knowasiak · B2B · compounds
  • Worth hundreds over years
  • Stays as long as the business does
  • Document-verified operators
  • Rewards legitimacy

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.

The product

A verified profile becomes a business's home on the internet.

Not a résumé. A living, searchable presence that search engines and AI assistants cite.

01

Verify

The business, with documents. Not a checkbox.

02

Publish

Long-form, public, and indexable from day one.

03

Get found

By buyers and partners, through search and AI answers.

04

Compound

Every post makes the profile harder to ignore.

Business model

Free to get verified. Paid to get found and to sell.

The business pays. Buyers and partners use it free, which is exactly what makes the paid side worth buying.

Free
$0
Verified presence
  • Document-verified profile
  • Public, indexable publishing
  • Discovery by buyers & partners
Pro
$29/mo
Get found on purpose
  • Business analytics
  • Need-based search placement
  • Enhanced presence
Intelligence
$99/mo
Identity into pipeline
  • Threat & market intel
  • AI networking & matched intros
  • Data & API access

Value exchange: Verify Publish Get found Upgrade recurring revenue that expands across tiers with no added acquisition cost.

Traction

18 months. 190 countries. No ad budget.

Organic, verified, compounding. Not bought.

0
countries reached
in 18 months
0M
server requests / mo
not visits, not users
~0K
registered users
distinct from companies
0+
verified companies
document-checked
0K
posts published
public · indexable
0m
avg. return session
~4m first visit

100% organic · $0 paid acquisition

Who's already here

640+ verified companies, before a single ad.

From solo studios to names you know, across 190 countries. Every one document-verified.

and 620+ more verified companies across 190 countries

Landscape

The verified-business corner is empty.

LinkedIn runs on recruiting. Alibaba is transactional, not identity. ZoomInfo holds data, not a living verified presence.

The corner is empty because reaching it requires mandatory verification, and no attention-funded network can require it without collapsing its own user count.

Unit economics

B2B doesn't churn like consumer. That's the whole story.

≈$810
lifetime value per verified business
8:1
LTV : CAC, even at a $100 paid CAC
~$0
acquisition cost today, 100% organic

Illustrative: $29/mo tier · ~85% gross margin · ~3% monthly churn → ~33-month lifetime.

Consumer, via ads
a few $
Knowasiak, per business
≈$810 lifetime value

Multiple tiers, from free verified presence up to premium intelligence and analytics, raise revenue per account with no added acquisition cost.

Roadmap

The profile is the wedge. The platform is the business.

Shipped, next, and funded. Each phase deepens lock-in and lifts revenue per account.

Live today

Identity & trust

  • Document verification
  • Business-card storage
  • Digital business card
Next · 0–6 mo

Intelligence

  • Business threat intel
  • Business analytics
  • Need-based search
6–12 mo

AI networking

  • Graph-based AI network
  • AI recommendations
  • Matched introductions
12–18 mo

Publishing & scale

  • Rich-text publishing
  • Multi-tier accounts
  • Native mobile apps

Market

Every business that wants to look legit and sell globally.

Sized bottom-up from the funnel we already run, not a slice of a big number.

TAM300M+ businesses

Every formal business seeking online legitimacy and cross-border reach. The revenue pools we touch run into tens of billions a year.

SAMDigital-first, 190 countries

Businesses already publishing and transacting in the channels we serve, inside the markets we have reached.

SOM≈10K paying · ≈$4.8M ARR

640+ verified companies today. A modest conversion to $29–$99/mo tiers is ~10,000 paying, ≈$4.8M ARR, under 1% of the TAM. Illustrative.

The team

One founder. An agent fleet. 190 countries.

Aditya Gaurav
Aditya Gaurav
Founder & CEO

The output of a twenty-person team, built and run by one person with AI leverage.

Directs an agent fleet Claude OpenAI Codex
Background IITGoogleGDWCCognac Metaverse

First hires this round Head of Product · Growth · Trust & verification · 2× Engineering

Capability was never the constraint. Headcount and capital were, and this round removes both.

The plan for the money

$3M buys ~24 months, monetization, and the team.

Team & senior hires45% · $1.35M
Product & AI25% · $0.75M
Mobile · iOS & Android15% · $0.45M
Growth & verification ops15% · $0.45M
~24-month runway
0–6 mo
Monetization live. First paying cohort on $29 & $99 tiers.
6–12 mo
≈2,500 paying businesses · ≈$1.2M ARR. Mobile in market.
12–24 mo
≈10,000 paying · ≈$4.8M ARR · 190 countries active.

Front-of-envelope: blended ~$40/mo per paying business across tiers. ARR figures are illustrative, with cohort data in the data room.

The ask

$3M to make it the default B2B network.

Turn a bootstrapped, verified network into the default place a business proves it is real and gets found.

$3M seed round SAFE or priced · cap to set ~24 mo runway
10Kpaying businesses ≈$4.8MARR · illustrative 190countries active MobileiOS & Android live

The winner in verified B2B identity owns a global standard, the way Alibaba owns global trade. Seed prices that category before it is contested. Fund the team, and we make it unignorable.

Knowasiak · knowasiak.com · seed round open

Appendix

Every headline number, defined.

95M requests / mo

Server-side HTTP requests to the platform. Not visits, not users. The honest top-of-funnel signal.

~22K registered users

Individual accounts on the platform today. Distinct from the verified businesses below.

640+ verified companies

Businesses that passed document verification. The number that actually monetizes.

190 countries

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.

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