Veris AI, a platform that enables companies to safely train and test AI agents through novel, high-fidelity simulated experiences, has emerged from stealth and announced that it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Decibel Ventures and Acrew Capital, with participation from angel investors including Ian Livingstone, The House Fund, Rocket Money’s Idris Mokhtarzada, and Dorothy Chang, among others.
Problem being solved: Within the next three years, 80% of companies are expected to integrate AI agents into their core operations, a trend that will enable massive productivity gains through automation. But most agents lack the accuracy, consistency, and governance required for enterprise use, exposing organizations to significant risk. Veris eliminates these roadblocks by allowing developers to train agents utilizing experience rather than prompt engineering and human-generated data, as is standard practice today. As a result, Veris accelerates development speed in a way that is purpose-built for quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Executive team: Veris’ founders combine deep technical expertise with real-world enterprise experience. And Chief Executive Officer Mehdi Jamei holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from University of California at Berkeley and formerly led agentic AI at System and Workmate. Chief Technology Officer Andi Partovi earned a Ph.D. in brain-computer interfaces from the University of Melbourne and was previously a Solutions Architect at Google and Founder/CTO at KeyLead Health).
How the funding will be used: The seed funding will be used to hire a lean and high-impact team of engineers and data scientists.
KEY QUOTES:
“We started Veris after observing that the traditional ways we train machine learning models just don’t work for AI agents. Similar to how self-driving cars needed simulated cities to become production-ready, AI agents need real experience. There’s a paradigm shift taking place right now in which AI learns by interacting with the world directly, rather than solely relying on human-generated data. We are building Veris to unlock the potential of agentic AI for enterprises – both by solving existing problems and improving the speed and quality in which new agents can come into production.”
Mehdi Jamei, CEO and co-founder of Veris
“As founders, Mehdi and Andi have a rare combination of academic, technical and enterprise customer experience that makes them well-positioned to deliver on this new paradigm. We’ve been looking to make an investment in this space for quite some time and Veris is the only platform we found that is building the environment layer that enterprise AI has been missing.”
Alessio Fanelli, Partner and CTO at Decibel Ventures
“Veris is ahead of the curve in approaching agent training through experience rather than evaluation. Their simulation-first approach is exactly what enterprises need to confidently deploy AI agents in production. We believe Veris is defining a new and dynamic category in enterprise AI — and expect the rest of the industry to quickly follow their lead.”
Asad Khaliq, Founding Partner at Acrew Capital
