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01 · Press Releases

August 11, 2026Verra Raises $5 Million Seed Round to Unlock Institutional Memory for Consulting Firms

02 · About Verra

Verra is the institutional memory layer for consulting firms. The platform builds governed, dynamic knowledge bases around each firm's actual work, making decades of expertise available to every consultant and every agent, with permissions that mirror the firm's existing structure. Verra is backed by Kearny Jackson, Petra, a16z Speedrun, and strategic angel investors.

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03 · Key Facts

The institutional memory layer for consulting firms.

Founded: December 2025
Headquarters: New York, NY
Website: verra.com

80 → 10-15 hrs
Time to a first draft of a client deliverable: 90%+
Of onboarded BRG consultants use Verra daily: 215,000
Analyst-hours reclaimed annually

What Verra does: Verra captures a consulting firm's accumulated expertise - from firmwide proposals to individual engagement data rooms - and makes it available to every consultant and every agent, governed by the firm's existing permissions structure.
Key messages: Humans are good at aggregating context. They're bad at sharing it. Verra fixes that.
Governance should always be deterministic - never delegated to an agent.
Everyone will have access to frontier AI. What separates firms will be memory, context, and how work actually gets done.
Customers: Management consulting and expert services firms. Representative customers include Berkeley Research Group and The Keystone Group.
Funding: Verra has raised $5 million in seed financing led by Kearny Jackson, with participation from Petra, a16z Speedrun, and strategic angel investors. Verra previously participated in a16z Speedrun, where it raised a $500,000 pre-seed round.
Press contact: press@verra.com

04 · Executive Bios

Kashyap Nathan - Co-founder & CEO

Kashyap Nathan is co-founder and CEO of Verra, which he started in December 2025 at 22. Before Verra, he was a Greylock Fellow, a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI (Platform), and a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir in Financial Services. He also conducted machine learning research at DARPA on collaborative knowledge curation. He left Georgia Institute of Technology - where he was studying Computer Science - to build Verra full-time.

Christopher Farrington - Co-founder & CTO

Christopher Farrington is co-founder and CTO of Verra, which he co-founded in December 2025. He previously worked at Deloitte, where he architected MCP microservices and built agents for enterprise use, and at Sandia National Labs, where he worked on Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Drones. He is on leave from Georgia Tech to build Verra full-time.

Mehul Rao - Founding Engineer

Mehul Rao is a Founding Engineer at Verra. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also conducted machine learning research focused on reducing model inference latency. He was previously an AI/ML engineer at AWS Bedrock - working directly on infrastructure supporting Anthropic's models - and a software engineer at Disney Streaming, where he built ML-powered video classification systems.

Jon Liu - Founding Engineer

Jon Liu is a Founding Engineer at Verra. He completed a Master's in Computer Science (High Performance Computing) at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also earned his BS with a specialization in Intelligence and Modeling. He was previously a software engineer at Google (Gemini Cloud), Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS.

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