{"id":88557,"title":"Verata - AI-Powered PE Intelligence Platform","tagline":"Verata unifies financial data and executive profiles to help PE firms make better investment and talent decisions","body":"Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe're Josh and Nick – co-founders of [Verata](https://www.veratainsight.com/).\n\n**TL;DR** Verata is the first unified intelligence platform for private equity that combines financial data and detailed executive profiles in one place. PE professionals spend hours jumping between LinkedIn, Pitchbook, and ZoomInfo manually compiling data. Verata saves firms 4.7x research time while providing verified executive attribution data that reveals which leaders truly drive returns.\n\nAsk: Are you a PE firm currently evaluating your research and intelligence stack for 2025? Book a [demo here](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner) or email [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com).\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/0xs6-cihW-s\u003e\n\n❌ **The Problem** \n\nPrivate equity professionals waste 20+ hours per week on fragmented research across data silos (PitchBook, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo).\n\nA look at the numbers:\n\n* 71% of PE professionals toggle between 3+ platforms daily\n* 62% of executive hires fail to meet performance expectations\n* $380B in value creation is missed annually due to poor talent decisions\n* No solutions: existing platforms show where executives worked but not what they actually delivered\n\n🛠️ **Our Solution: One Unified Platform for PE Intelligence**\n\n**All-in-One System** 📊\n\n* End the frustration of toggling between LinkedIn, Pitchbook, and ZoomInfo.\n* Financial and people data in one place.\n* Complete profiles with PE-specific metrics\n* Seamless workflow with no \"stitching\" required\n\n**Performance-Verified Talent Intelligence** 👥\n\n* Find executives with proven PE value creation records\n* Validated historical performance across multiple PE cycles\n* Quantify what executives actually delivered\n* Identify true drivers of portfolio success\n\n**Superior Data Quality** 📈\n\n* Auto-updating, never stale data with continuous verification\n* Verified sources with clear citations\n* Transparent revenue estimation methodology\n* High accuracy on projections vs. actual reported figures\n\n**Comprehensive Market Mapping** 🗺️\n\n* Map your entire PE ecosystem in minutes\n* Superior competitor identification and market research\n* Eliminate the need to stitch data across multiple tools\n* Get the freshest insights on companies, executives, and investors\n\n🌟 **Results \u0026 Metrics**\n\n* 330k+ PE operators with verified experience and quantified metrics\n* $1.2T+ exit value tracked across our PE operator database\n* 4.7x faster research compared to traditional methods\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n* Are you a PE firm currently evaluating your research tools? Book a demo here.\n* Know any PE Operating Partners or Talent Partners who might benefit from our platform? Please share this post or introduce us: [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:alex@verata.com)\n* Follow us on LinkedIn for the latest PE intelligence insights\n\nLearn more at [VerataInsight.com](http://VerataInsight.com)\n\n👫 **The Team**\n\nNick - Serial entrepreneur and repeat HR tech founder. He has deep expertise in people data and has built multiple advanced search systems for executive search professionals. Self-taught coder who graduated from Harvard and then worked as a diplomat in the US State department. \n\nJosh - Repeat founder and published algorithmic game theory researcher. Led technology teams for Alariss Global (General Catalyst) and AiFlow (YC ‘23) after graduating from Princeton (‘20, \\*22). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=88557\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/17b2d31d-6b4f-43fd-bf33-62214e75f584)\n\n","slug":"N2L-verata-ai-powered-pe-intelligence-platform","created_at":"2025-03-13T04:58:32.602Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T05:08:50.683Z","total_vote_count":6,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N2L-verata-ai-powered-pe-intelligence-platform","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=88557\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/17b2d31d-6b4f-43fd-bf33-62214e75f584","company":{"id":28162,"name":"Verata","slug":"verata","url":"https://www.veratainsight.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/04042feea68cfa6b3181b5712c149970e24f178f.png","batch":"Winter 2023","industry":"B2B","tags":["Fintech","Generative AI","SaaS","HR Tech"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/28162"}}