Verascient Raises Approx. USD1.2M in Pre-Seed Funding

Verascient, a South African-founded enterprise AI infrastructure startup, closed an oversubscribed $1.2 million pre-seed round led by Founder Collective. The funding will support global scaling and hiring top AI engineering talent. Founded by Keagan Stokoe and Emile Ferreira, the platform uses a temporal knowledge graph for financial services, insurance, and logistics.