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Verses AI Inc.

Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020
LAST FUNDING
$9.4M
Seed

Enterprise AI for finance that thinks and learns like people. VERSES Genius™ is used to manage risk when data is volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous.

Funding history

DateRoundAmountInvestorsSource
Seed$9.4M

About Verses AI Inc.

How much funding has Verses AI Inc. raised?

Verses AI Inc. has raised $9.4M in total funding. The most recent round was Seed.

Where is Verses AI Inc. headquartered?

Verses AI Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

What does Verses AI Inc. do?

Enterprise AI for finance that thinks and learns like people. VERSES Genius™ is used to manage risk when data is volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous.

What problem does Verses AI Inc. solve?

Fund managers can't rely on today's LLMs because they can't be explained and aren't reliable for identifying and quantifying financial risk.

What's Verses AI Inc.'s solution?

Verses offers Genius, an AI system for finance modeled on active inference (inspired by how the human brain learns) that helps fund managers identify and act on risk from new data.

What makes Verses AI Inc. different?

The site claims Genius beat OpenAI's o1-preview and DeepSeek R1 at games like Mastermind and Atari, and beat Google DeepMind's models by 60% at lower cost, while remaining fully explainable unlike standard LLMs.

What makes Verses AI Inc. notable?

Co-founded by Gabriel René; the company received a $10 million strategic investment from Abu Dhabi AI firm G42 in 2024 and trades publicly on OTC markets under ticker VRSSF.

Leadership

James Christodoulou
Executive Officer
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James Hendrickson
Executive Officer
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Dan Mapes
Executive Officer, Director
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Gabriel Rene
Executive Officer, Director
David Scott
Executive Officer, Director
Kevin Wilson
Executive Officer
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Michael Blum
Director
Jonathan DeVos
Director
Gordon Scott Paterson
Director
Jay Scott Samit
Director
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