Veris AI
Category: AI Agents
An end-to-end platform to teach and deploy enterprise AI agents using high-fidelity simulation environments for training and testing. Veris AI was founded in 2025. The company is led by Mehdi Jamei. Based in New York, NY, USA. Team size: 1-10. Total funding raised: $8.5 million. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Decibel Ventures, Acrew Capital, Ian Livingstone, The House Fund, Idris Mokhtarzada, Dorothy Chang.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Team size
- 1-10
- Total funding
- $8.5 million
Value proposition
Provides enterprises with safe, realistic simulation-based training ensuring AI agents are production-ready, accurate, and governed for domain-specific tasks.
Products and solutions
Veris for benchmarking (incl. VAmoS Bench voice-agent leaderboard, Jul 2026), Veris for Agentic SDLC (stateful dependency sandboxes for coding agents), Veris Simulation Sandbox / Veris Plus (self-serve, Apr 2026), post-training via RL/SFT on simulation data
Unique value
Adopts a 'simulation-first' and 'experience-driven' methodology for training AI agents, building an 'environment layer' that contrasts with traditional prompt engineering approaches.
Target customer
Enterprises in sectors such as financial services, HR, and manufacturing needing specialized, reliable AI agents for complex tasks
Industries served
Financial Services, HR Tech, Manufacturing, Enterprise Productivity
Technology advantage
Leverages high-fidelity simulations combined with reinforcement learning to prepare AI agents for domain-specific, complex workflows, ensuring production-readiness and safety.
How they differentiate
Focuses on experiential training through simulated environments to ensure AI agents are safe, reliable, and production-ready for enterprise-specific applications.
Main competitors
Large AI research entities such as DeepMind and Microsoft Research, Other startups in the AI agent development and MLOps tool space
Key partnerships
Google Cloud Marketplace (March 2026), Microsoft Foundry collaboration with Lume Security (March 2026), AWS Bedrock AgentCore collaboration (May 2026), early-stage customers in fintech, HR, and manufacturing sectors
Notable customers
A consumer fintech company (for compliant chatbots), An HR tech company (for executive assistant AI agents), A manufacturing company (for supply chain AI agents), Lume Security (cybersecurity AI agent via Microsoft Foundry, 2026)
Major milestones
Emerged from stealth mode (June 2025), Secured $8.5 million in seed funding (June 2025), Announced availability on Google Cloud Marketplace (March 2026), Launched Veris Plus self-serve sandbox (April 2026), AWS Bedrock AgentCore collaboration (May 2026), Launched VAmoS Bench voice-agent benchmark (July 2026)
Growth metrics
Not publicly disclosed beyond initial funding and early customer engagements
Market positioning
Early-stage company providing critical simulation and training infrastructure for enterprise AI agents.
Geographic focus
Primarily US-based (New York headquarters) with a global view on competition in the AI space
Patents and IP
Not publicly disclosed
About Mehdi Jamei
Mehdi Jamei is the Co-founder and CEO of Veris AI. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He previously led agentic AI at System and Workmate.
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Official website: https://veris.ai/