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Seed Round · San Francisco / Palo Alto

Knowasiak

The verifiable B2B intelligence network — the corner LinkedIn structurally can't touch.

22,000+ registered accounts
4.2M monthly page views
200+ countries, monthly
$0 paid acquisition
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Why Now

Why this wins now.

01
AI Collapsed The Cost
One founder plus an AI agent fleet reached 200+ countries and 22,000+ accounts. Team size stopped being the constraint on building a network.
02
Search Is Distribution
Every business profile is a page Google and AI answer engines can find — free reach, not a media budget.
03
Trust Must Be Verifiable
Businesses increasingly need machine-readable, verified trust data — not just another directory listing.
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The Problem

Businesses are searchable. They aren't trustworthily represented.

Google
Discovery — but no verification
LinkedIn
People — not businesses
Directories
Listings — no reputation
Knowasiak
Verified business identity + reputation + discovery
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Why Now

This didn't exist three years ago.

AI collapsed the team a global network needs
One founder plus an AI agent fleet reached 200+ countries and 22,000+ registered accounts in 18 months. That speed didn't exist before agents could run as autonomous operators, not just copilots.
One thing no other network gives a business owner
People come to Knowasiak for something they can't get on LinkedIn, X, or anywhere else: similar-minded business owners to connect with — for leads, services, collaborations, and reach into markets they couldn't access alone.
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The Solution

Verify your business and get found.

Free to join, always. This is the pricing model the platform is built around — verification and a listing cost nothing; businesses pay for reach, insights, and priority placement once they want more than that.

400M+ SMBs now within reach
Free$0
Pro$99/mo
Intelligence$299/mo

Current test pricing — not yet validated by paying customers. See slide 14.

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Why It's Defensible

The network gets harder to replicate as it grows.

Verification, badges, and analytics aren't the moat — a competitor can build those features. The moat is what accumulates underneath them.

Identity graph
22K+
registered accounts — the base a new entrant starts without
Content graph
27K+
posts — history a new entrant starts at zero
Discovery graph
35M+
page views indexed by Google and AI answer engines
Intelligence graph
Live
who searches whom, what, where — compounding with every visit

A copycat can ship verification and badges in a sprint. They can't ship 22K registered accounts, 27K posts, or accumulated search history overnight.

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Competitive Landscape

The whitespace nobody else occupies.

Identity
Verification
Discovery
Social
Intelligence
API
Google
LinkedIn
Crunchbase
ZoomInfo
Knowasiak

Business identity + public discovery + social graph + intelligence API.

That combination is the whitespace — a specific gap, not a claim of beating anyone everywhere.

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The Product

The product.

Real screenshots from the live platform.

Knowasiak home feed
The Feed
Real posts, real polls, real engagement — not a placeholder.
Knowasiak business directory
Business Directory
Every registered business, searchable by country and category.
Knowasiak communities
Communities
Real companies building and posting in public.
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Traction

Content up 400%+ two years running.

Posts grew 401% in 2025 and 412% again in 2026. Signups doubled year over year. Every month below is real, and none of it came from paid acquisition.

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22,000+
Registered accounts
27,000+
Posts, all-time
+412%
Post growth, year over year
640+
Domain-verified businesses

August is 25 of 31 days: 750 accounts and 2,040 posts so far, tracking to ~850 and ~2,500. Active in 200+ countries, zero paid acquisition.

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Network Health

Real usage across the network.

Most of this is public discovery, not logged-in sessions — that's the model today, not a weakness. Every visitor is a potential business user, buyer, or distribution signal.

35M+
Page views, all-time
4.2M+
Page views, last 30 days
30K
Visitors every workday

Signed-in engagement, on top of that reach: 1,360 monthly active · 525 weekly active · ~39% weekly-to-monthly ratio.

Infrastructure signals — automated traffic, not user metrics
133M+
Cloudflare-logged requests, last 12 months
93M
Peak single month — large-scale automated crawl event
5,500+
Bot/crawler visits every day
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Go-To-Market

Business profiles rank themselves in search.

Not a new bet — the same loop already driving our page views, growing faster than account signups. The raise deepens this exact channel, not a new one.

01
Publish
Every registered business gets a public, indexable profile page — not gated, not a login wall.
02
Get Found
Profile pages rank in Google search and get cited by AI answer engines — free distribution, every page.
03
Compound
Visitors who find one profile discover the network. Some register their own — more pages, more inbound.

48% of new users found us through search, self-reported at signup — before any paid acquisition. This is the same organic discovery model already driving Knowasiak's growth.

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The Growth Loop

Every stage of the loop is already running.

Each step feeds the next. The numbers below are what the loop produces today — the raise makes each stage bigger, not new.

01
Visitors Arrive
30K
every workday, from Google and AI answer engines
02
Some Sign Up
750
new accounts in August so far — tracking to ~850, a record month
03
They Publish
2,040
posts in August so far — tracking to ~2,500, each a new page
04
Machines Index It
5,500
bot and crawler visits a day, feeding search and LLMs
05
Surface Grows
4.2M
page views last 30 days — more queries land on us
Back to step 01 — more surface returns more visitors. The loop tightens every month, and no step depends on ad spend.
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Market Size

Two real markets. Not a claim on either whole.

Context for scale, not our TAM claim — the actual opportunity is the bottom-up model on the next slide.

Networking
$65.6B
Global professional networking market — includes recruiters, individuals, and platforms beyond B2B. Sourced: Mordor Intelligence, 2026.
Verification
$15.8B
Global identity verification market; Knowasiak targets the business-identity segment within it. Sourced: Fortune Business Insights, 2026.
SME Share
62%
SMEs already account for 62% of professional-networking spend — the fastest-growing segment of that market.
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Monetization Potential at 1M Businesses — ARR

1M businesses. We only need a small % to pay.

Scale the free network first. Monetize the businesses that need more reach, intelligence, and trust.

Conservative
$23.8M
2% paid conversion — 20,000 paying businesses at $99/mo.
Base Case
$59.4M
5% paid conversion — 50,000 paying businesses at $99/mo.Zero paying customers today
Upside
$118.8M
10% paid conversion — 100,000 paying businesses at $99/mo.
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Business Model

How we make money.

First 18 Months
1,000,000

free accounts through verification, badges & insights. Zero revenue goal, zero paid acquisition — momentum first. Pricing is already live for testing.

After — How Money Gets Made
+
Pro Accounts
Background customization, ad removal & priority placement — already live in-product. Pricing switches on, not built from scratch.
$
Advertisements
Native placements once volume makes a network worth advertising on.
#
Trust Score API
Verified identity data licensed to lenders & fintechs.
AI Deep Insights
Paid analytics on reach, engagement, and buyer intent.
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Founder-Market Fit

Built alone. Not a prototype — a live network.

Aditya Gaurav
Aditya Gaurav
Founder & CEO

Built Knowasiak from zero to 22,000+ registered accounts across 200+ countries — zero funding, zero paid acquisition. Personally shipped verification, the community product, and the AI-agent workflow that made a one-person team possible.

Google Startup SchoolIIT Bombay Eureka FinalistStartup World Cup
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The Ask

We're raising $1.25M

to go from 22,000 to 1,000,000 registered accounts in 18 months.

Now
22K
6 Months
100K
12 Months
300K
18 Months
1M
$1.25M → 18 months → 3 growth milestones
$550K — 2 Senior Engineers + Compute
44%
$340K — Growth & Community Ops
27%
$210K — Founder Compensation
17%
$150K — Buffer & Reserves
12%

Product-led growth, not ad spend — engineering hires deepen the search loop already driving page views. We prioritize network density first, then monetize the businesses that need additional reach and intelligence.

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Let's Talk

Aditya Gaurav

Founder & CEO, Knowasiak

Email
adityagaurav@knowasiak.com
Phone
+1 (332) 283 2969
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/adityagauravkc
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Appendix A — Growth Detail

How the search loop and growth pace break down.

The funnel already running today, and the monthly pace the 18-month target actually requires.

4.2M+
Page views / month
30K
Visitors / workday
22K+
Registered accounts
48%
Self-reported: found via search
By Month 6
13K/mo
to reach 100,000 registered accounts
By Month 12
33K/mo
to reach 300,000 registered accounts
By Month 18
117K/mo
to reach 1,000,000 registered accounts
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Appendix B — Monetization Notes

Benchmarks and sourcing behind the numbers.

Why 5% Conversion
ChartMogul's 2026 research on 200 B2B software products: 3–5% paid conversion is "good" for standard freemium, 8–12% is "top-quartile." Our Base Case uses 5% — the low end of good, not an optimistic pick.
A Market Analogue
Mature business-discovery platforms can monetize a mid-single-digit percentage of their base. Yelp's paying-location penetration was ~6.8% in 2024 — a directional comparison, not a like-for-like model.
Room Beyond The Target
Our 18-month target of 1M registered accounts is roughly 0.25% of the ~400M SMEs worldwide (World Economic Forum) — this raise doesn't require capturing the market, just a sliver of it.
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Appendix C — Allocation & Definitions

What each dollar funds, and how we define our numbers.

$550K — Engineering
Two senior engineers plus verification infrastructure, Trust Score API, and AI-powered discovery — includes roughly $70–100K of LLM/AI compute and ~$20K of cloud infrastructure.
$340K — Growth & Ops
Community operations and the growth team driving 22K → 100K → 300K → 1M registered accounts.
$210K — Founder Comp.
Founder salary of $140,000/year across the 18-month period — within the $130–150K seed-stage Bay Area market range, and 17% of the round.
How We Define Terms
Account = a registered account created on the platform · Domain-verified = confirmed ownership of a business domain email (not document verification) · Active = logged in and took an action within 30 days · Visitor = reached a page without logging in · Page view = a single page load, not a unique visitor · Search-acquired = self-reported "found us through search" at signup.