Verification

The official Israeli company register (רשם החברות), published as open government data. Confirms the company number, incorporation date, entity type, whether the registrar still lists it as active, and whether it is flagged as in breach of its filing obligations.

The official UK register: company number, incorporation date, company type and whether the register still lists it as active. Matched on the registered company name, so a dissolved or similarly named entity is not mistaken for the company.

Confirms a US company exists as a registered SEC filer, matched exactly on the legal entity name. Covers venture-backed private companies too, since a US startup that raises from institutions files a Form D. EDGAR also lists investment vehicles named after the companies they back, so a near-match is never reported as the company.

The official Norwegian entity register. Confirms the organisation number, registered name, legal form, registration date, and whether the register records bankruptcy or liquidation.

The official Finnish business information system. Confirms the business ID, registered name, company form and registration status.

Batch participation for companies that claim a YC pedigree.

The EU’s interconnection of national business registers, reached through the e-Justice portal. Used to locate which national register holds a company so the official record can be checked directly.

China’s official enterprise credit information system, consulted through public sources.

The ADGM public registry, the DFSA public register of firms authorised in the DIFC, and the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property, consulted where a company claims a Gulf entity or a regulated financial-services licence.

Public company and founder background where notable coverage exists.

The bodies that actually govern a sector are consulted for that sector: FDA, EMA and ClinicalTrials.gov for health and bio; FAA, FCC and ITU for space; BIS and DDTC for export-controlled and dual-use technology; FCA, the Federal Reserve and the CFPB for financial services.

The global register of Legal Entity Identifiers. Confirms the registered legal name, the issuing register and its company number, whether the LEI is still active, and any recorded direct or ultimate parent, which is the one free way to see the group a company actually sits in.

Website ownership, registration and the age of the digital presence.

Historical snapshots that show how long a site and its claims have been live.

Repositories, contributions and project history behind technical founders.

Academic publications and citations for research-backed founders.

Profile confirmation where a founder connects their LinkedIn account directly.

Employment history, roles and tenure, matched against the team slide.

The European Patent Office’s worldwide database. Each claimed number is looked up individually against the issuing authority’s record, so a patent that exists but is filed by a different applicant is reported as such rather than passing as verified. Covers international PCT filings and the European, US, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Canadian, Israeli and regional African and Eurasian registers.

US patent and trademark filings from the USPTO Open Data Portal, matched to the claimed IP portfolio.

The World Intellectual Property Organization’s international patent system. Every international (WO/PCT) application a company claims is confirmed directly — through the EPO worldwide database, which carries the WIPO international register in full — so a PCT claim is verified against the official record either way.

ARIPO, OAPI and the Eurasian Patent Organization, which grant patents covering groups of member states.

J-PlatPat, KIPRIS, TIPO, InPASS, IPOS and the Hong Kong IPD, consulted for the final legal status of a national filing.

Patent families and citations across jurisdictions, cross-checked on the public web.

Corporate filings and disclosures from the SEC public record.

Prior rounds and investors gathered from live web coverage (Crunchbase, PitchBook and the financial press) at analysis time, used to corroborate a declared raise.

Korea’s statutory disclosure system, the local equivalent of SEC EDGAR, consulted where a company claims a Korean listing or filing history.

Company profile, team and funding signals from the public listing.

Rounds, valuations and investor data from Dealroom’s public company profiles.

Federal contracts, grants and SBIR/STTR awards on the public record, for hard-tech sectors.

NASA’s register of the technology projects it funds, including recorded technology readiness levels. Matched on the participating-organisation record, not on a keyword, so an unrelated project cannot be read as heritage.

The NIH registry of clinical studies. A claimed trial phase either has an NCT number, a registered phase and a named lead sponsor, or it does not. Matched on the sponsor record rather than a keyword, because the registry search also returns trials a company merely collaborates on.

FDA 510(k) clearances filed under the company name, with the device and decision date.

Launch reception and community response for consumer and developer products.

Public ratings, reviews and release cadence for mobile products.

Public reviews and ratings that corroborate customer and revenue claims.

Recent coverage, competitor moves and market activity around the company.

The competitive landscape and where the company sits in it, mapped from live web sources.

Competitor and market research is pinned to the publications that actually cover the sector — SpaceNews and Payload for space, Endpoints and MedTech Dive for bio, SemiAnalysis and EE Times for semiconductors — rather than the general technology press.

Analyst houses and investor indices such as Space Foundation, BryceTech, Space Capital, Novaspace, the OECD and the World Economic Forum. Treated as signals to corroborate, never as the sole basis for a market size, because several of them are invested in the markets they report on.

SAM.gov, TED Europe and the EU Funding & Tenders portal, where the public demand a hard-tech company usually depends on is actually announced.

A catalog of shut-down startups and their post-mortems, correlated against the deal by the RIP module.

Startup failure stories and causes of death, matched against the deal being analyzed.

The public startup-failure post-mortem list, used as a risk benchmark (not their paywalled data).