Company profile
Verascient Limited
Verascient Limited is a UK-incorporated, South Africa-operated enterprise AI infrastructure company, registered in England and Wales and headquartered in Cape Town. Co-founded by Emile Dos Santos Ferreira and Keagan Mark Stokoe, the company builds a temporal knowledge graph that consolidates an organisation's fragmented institutional knowledge, spanning documents, emails, meetings, spreadsheets and internal systems, into shared context for AI agents, while preserving history, permissions and provenance. Verascient targets financial services, insurance and logistics companies. The company began as Local Logits, an encrypted AI-proxy service, before pivoting to AI hallucination detection as Benefact AI in August 2025, then relaunching as Verascient in October 2025 with its current enterprise-knowledge-infrastructure focus. Verascient works directly inside client organisations, deploying AI engineers alongside company teams to build workflows and agents around specific operational problems.
- Sector
- Technology / IT Consulting & Other Services, Internet Software & Services
- Markets
- South Africa
- Founded
- 2025
- Ownership
- Private
- Stage
- Startup
- Capital raised
- $1.2m
- Business model
- B2B Consulting/Advisory
Products and services
Temporal Knowledge Graph, Agent-to-Agent Messaging Protocol, Background Agents, Role-Based Access Controls & Verify API
Transactions
| Date | Transaction | Type | Value | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2026 | Founder Collective, Andrena Ventures, Cambridge Enterprise, Summit Ventures and angel investors invest USD 1.2 million in Verascient | Venture Capital | $1.2m | South Africa |
Source: Partner Researchers.