VeriPura
VeriPura
Preventing border rejections before a shipment leaves the country of origin — automatically, immutably, at scale.
Every year, billions of euros in food shipments are delayed or destroyed at EU and US borders — not because the product is unsafe, but because the paperwork is wrong.
A single missing or incorrect certificate can halt an entire shipment. Demurrage, storage, re-inspection, destruction — costs fall entirely on the EU or US importer.
Based on FDA refusal database analysis of 65,667 human food rejections. The product itself is rarely the issue — the compliance paperwork is.
EU and US importers bear full legal accountability — but depend entirely on Global South suppliers to produce the correct paperwork. A structural liability gap with no current fix.
VeriPura is the agentic compliance platform with blockchain attestation that prevents food shipments from being rejected at EU and US borders. Three layers that work together.
Collect and validate supplier certificates, cross-check EU and US regulatory requirements, and auto-generate corrected documentation — before the shipment leaves the country of origin. Problems are fixed at source, not at the border.
IOTA blockchain creates an immutable, tamper-proof record of every document and every compliance decision. Customs verifies provenance instantly — no centralised database, no single point of failure, no possibility of retrospective falsification.
VeriPura goes to market through two complementary channels. We sell directly to upper-mid and enterprise importers — companies with the compliance burden, the shipment volumes and the budget to justify a direct relationship. In parallel, freight forwarders serve as channel partners who extend our reach into the SME importer segment. Forwarders already touch every shipment, carry the client relationships, and are motivated to reduce their own liability exposure. Critically, each new forwarder partner instantly opens a new geography or market segment — making the channel our primary expansion engine, not just a distribution tactic. CAC: €1,200 via channel vs €9,500 direct.
Regulatory mandates are converging in 2026. This is not a trend — it is a permanent step-up in the cost of cross-border food trade.
Mandatory origin traceability and digital documentary equivalence for all non-EU food imports. VeriPura is the importer-side attestation layer.
Deforestation due diligence mandatory for cocoa, coffee, soy, palm oil, beef, rubber, timber. Due Diligence Statement required via TRACES before EU/EEA entry. Documentation burden tripling for affected importers.
Traceability recordkeeping legally in force. Dual EU/US compliance accounts are VeriPura's highest-ARPA segment — one platform solving both jurisdictions simultaneously.
Signed 17 Jan 2026. Provisional application began 27 Feb 2026. Full ratification by all 27 EU member states pending — ECJ challenge may extend the timeline. Import volumes from Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay ramping immediately under new terms.
Regulatory pressure is not a trend — it is a permanent step-up in the cost of doing business. Every food importer sourcing from a low-CPI corridor now faces mandatory documentation obligations they currently cannot meet at scale.
A permanent regulatory step-up in the cost of cross-border food trade — not a trend.
VeriPura operates on any corridor where institutional integrity risk creates documentary compliance exposure. The greater the CPI gap between origin and receiving market, the greater the importer's liability.
Source: Transparency International CPI 2024 · Scale 0 (highly corrupt) → 100 (very clean)
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Rejections pre-date regulation. Importers in high-compliance markets bear full legal accountability for supplier failures in low-CPI corridors — with no real-time correction capability.
Auto-validate, auto-correct, and immutably attest compliance documentation before departure from origin country.
Core value exists because cross-border documentation is structurally broken. Regulations amplify an urgent problem — they don't create it.
18+ years food export compliance encoded in the product. Blockchain attestation dataset grows and compounds with every shipment.
~10,000 EU/EEA SME food importers. ~3,500 US importers. 2,000 dual-compliance accounts (highest ARPA). Brazilian-corridor importers: highest-urgency 2026 segment.
21 → 2,610 clients Y1→Y5. CAC payback 2.1 months (Y3). Magic Number 16.5× driven by freight partner channel efficiency.
EUDR Dec 2026. FSMA 204 obligations active now. Farm to Fork phasing 2026–2027. EU–Mercosur provisionally applying Feb 2026; full ratification pending. Founder network + freight partner channel + IOTA co-marketing.
Agentic Workflow Architecture + IOTA: €200K · Cloud + SOC2: €50K · Key hires: €180K · GTM: €125K · Legal/Regulatory: €55K · Ops + contingency: €140K. Monthly burn: €46K (Y1) → €55K (Y2). COGS declining 29%→21% Y1→Y5.
€199–€899/month subscription (~80% of revenue) + €15–€280/shipment attestation (~20%). VeriPura retains 80→90% of gross revenue as freight partner share ramps down. Y5: €33.2M net revenue · €11.1M EBITDA (33.5%).
No existing solution combines AI compliance automation, blockchain attestation and freight partner distribution for Global South → EU/US food trade.
Email chains, PDFs, freelance compliance consultants. Slow, expensive, unscalable. Every €50K compliance consultant is a future VeriPura client.
Built for manufacturers, not importers. 18-month deployments. Cannot handle Global South documentary variance or blockchain attestation.
Document management tools, traceability trackers. Address one compliance step. No end-to-end agent-native platform exists at this intersection.
Infrastructure and provenance plays — not compliance automation. Require significant integration effort. Not designed for importer-side documentary compliance.
Pre-revenue. Pre-contract. The platform is built, the pipeline is real, and the regulatory mandate is live.
Live compliance agent demo operational. Screen recording available for async investor review. Core 9-stage workflow — Intake through Ledger — fully demonstrated.
Institutional-grade 5-year model (v5) — fully auditable with primary source data. Available in the data room on request.
Blockchain attestation layer integration underway with IOTA Foundation. Technical alignment confirmed on document notarisation and verifiable credentials approach.
Brazil–Great Britain beef corridor in early-stage discussion as a pilot use case with IOTA TWIN infrastructure. UK-specific documentary compliance — outside EU jurisdiction, EUDR does not apply.
Conversations underway with EU-based freight forwarders. Anchor partner LOI targeted Q2 2026. Partner channel is the primary go-to-market lever.
First EU food importer pilot candidates identified through founder network. Outreach underway targeting Dutch and Swiss SME importers sourcing from high-risk corridors.
This is a raise to sign the first anchor freight partner and close the first 28 clients. Seed proceeds fund the 18-month sprint to Series A readiness at €1.24M ARR.
Domain expertise and execution track record — the two things that matter most at pre-seed.
18+ years operating in food export and import compliance across Southeast Asia and the EU, including direct experience with South East Asian supply chains (Bangkok-based organic food production). EU food import compliance expert with an active network across the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. The regulatory knowledge encoded in VeriPura's compliance engine is his institutional expertise.
LinkedIn Profile
Serial entrepreneur and patent holder with €14M raised across prior ventures. Founder of the first Controlled Environment Agriculture company in South America, and worked in food processing — a firsthand understanding of the supply chain problems VeriPura solves. Italy-based with extensive go-to-market background in innovative B2B environments. Leads fundraising, partnerships and go-to-market.
LinkedIn ProfileOnno has spent 18 years on the exact problem VeriPura solves — he is the target customer. Thomas has raised capital and scaled food ventures across two continents. Together: domain expertise and execution track record to move from prototype to market leader.
All values in Euro (€) · Base case
| Line Item | Y1 2026 | Y2 2027 | Y3 2028 | Y4 2029 | Y5 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net Revenue | €208K | €1.24M | €5.19M | €15.0M | €33.2M |
| Gross Margin | 71% | 73% | 75% | 77% | 79% |
| EBITDA | (€592K) | (€889K) | (€700K) | €2.46M | €11.1M |
| EBITDA Margin | -284% | -72% | -13% | 16.4% | 33.5% |
| Cash EOP | €187K | €3.41M | €21.5M | €25.9M | €40.3M |
| Active Clients | 21 | 122 | 449 | 1,237 | 2,610 |
| FTEs | 6 | 11 | 23 | 39 | 57 |
Illustrative only. Assumes full €750K raise, ~16.7% pre-seed ownership diluting to ~7.5% at exit after Series A and B. Returns not guaranteed.
€750K · 18-month runway to Series A readiness · Deployed across five workstreams
Pre-Seed SAFE · March 2026 · Confidential
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