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Veritus

YC S25

San Francisco, US · Founded 2025 · 10 employees · Hiring · 3 known investors

Veritus provides AI-powered voice, SMS, email, and chat agents for lenders, banks, and collection agencies to re-engage loan applicants, handle customer service, and manage borrower delinquencies while maintaining regulatory compliance. The platform automates outbound outreach, payment processing, and collections conversations across the lending and servicing lifecycle.

Also known as Veritus Agent · Veritus AI

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechLendingAIUnited States of AmericaAmerica / CanadaPartly Remote

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S25)

Veritus was founded in 2025 by Joshua March, David Schlesinger, and Joseph Stein.

JMJoshua March
Joshua Marchin𝕏Founder & CEOHe previously co-founded and led Conversocial, an enterprise SaaS company acquired by Verint, and co-founded SCiFi Foods, which received backing from a16z. He is also the author of Message Me, a book on customer service and AI.
DSDavid Schlesinger
David Schlesingerin𝕏Co-Founder & CTODavid Schlesinger is a co-founder at Veritus Agent with over a decade of startup experience, including prior roles at Divvy Homes and Cloudflare.
JSJoseph Stein
Joseph Steinin𝕏Co-founder & Head of ProductHe has over 10 years of experience in startups, including a role at a company acquired by Fitbit and subsequently by Google.

Investors · 3

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Veritus develops AI agents for the consumer lending industry, deployed across the loan lifecycle from origination through servicing and recovery. Its agents operate over voice, SMS, email, and web chat, sharing conversation context so a borrower interaction can move between channels without losing history. Use cases described by the company include re-engaging abandoned or stalled loan applications and collecting missing documents, extending customer service outside business hours for balance inquiries, payments, and account questions, and contacting early-arrears borrowers to capture payments, discuss hardship options, and reduce roll rates into charge-off.

The platform includes a rules-based negotiation engine that offers payment plans, settlements, and hardship options according to lender-configured settlement authority, payment thresholds, and approval hierarchies; campaign management with portfolio segmentation by delinquency stage or risk score, sequencing, and cadence control; PCI-compliant payment processing supporting cards, ACH, payment plans, and settlements, either through the customer's existing processor or a Veritus partner; and dashboards covering conversions, containment, payment outcomes, compliance scores, and sentiment. An observability layer performs AI-driven QA on all interactions in real time, producing compliance scorecards, sentiment analysis, hallucination detection, and call quality metrics, and can also be applied to human agent calls. Integration options include REST APIs, webhooks, daily flat files, and real-time data exchange with loan management systems, CRMs, payment systems, and telephony infrastructure.

Business model

Software platform sold to lenders, loan servicers, and collection agencies that deploy Veritus AI agents in place of or alongside human outreach, sales, and servicing staff.

Traction

Published customer references include Splash Financial, where an AI agent named Sofia is reported to convert 20% more post-qualification applicants than the human baseline, and Stork Club, whose Head of Revenue and Customer Operations reports recoveries rising nearly 70% in the first month with AI agents accounting for half of dollars collected after thousands of outbound calls. Second Alliance, Inc.'s president describes using Veritus as an "AI subservicer" handling settlements and payment plans on placed accounts. Additional endorsements come from a former Robinhood and Databricks security executive and a former LendingClub chief consumer banking officer.

Latest developments

Veritus published a case study on its AI voice agent deployment with Splash Financial and maintains an insights library including a white paper on TCPA consent.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography

Market position

Vertical AI agent vendor focused on consumer lending origination, servicing, and collections; the site notes participation in Y Combinator.

Positions as a vertically specialized platform for lending and collections rather than a general-purpose voice AI, combining built-in regulatory controls, a configurable rules-based negotiation engine, and QA review of all interactions.

Technology

AI conversational agents for voice, SMS, email, and web chat with shared memory across channels. Compliance is enforced in the product through cadence limits, time-of-day restrictions, and consent management, with detection and handling of cease-and-desist requests, bankruptcy, disputes, deceased borrowers, and attorney representation. The company states its design enforces FDCPA, TCPA, FCRA, GLBA, and state-specific rules, and that all conversations are recorded, timestamped, and scored for compliance. Negotiation logic is rules-based rather than model-determined, which the company describes as traceable and transparent.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales through live demo and contact requests on the company website, supported by case studies, white papers, and customer testimonials aimed at lending and collections operators.

Consumer lenders, loan servicers, and third-party collection agencies. The company segments its site by lender, servicer, and collection agency personas.

Geography

Focused on the United States consumer lending market, with compliance built around U.S. federal statutes and state-specific rules.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
HeadcountAug 202622
Increase in debt recoveries in first month (Stork Club)Jan 2025nearly 70%
Increase in post-qualification applicant conversion vs. human baseline (Splash FJan 202520%
Share of collected dollars attributed to Veritus AI agents (Stork Club)Jan 202550%

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Competitors · 1

by search overlap

Companies competing with Veritus for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2025
Splash Financial case study for AI voice agent "Sofia"

Veritus published a case study describing an AI voice agent deployed with lender Splash Financial that converted 20% more post-qualification applicants than the human baseline.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Veritus do?
Veritus builds compliant AI voice, SMS, email, and chat agents for consumer lenders, servicers, and collection agencies.
Who founded Veritus?
Veritus was founded by Joshua March, David Schlesinger, Joseph Stein in 2025.
Who are Veritus's investors?
Veritus's investors include Coral Capital, Threshold Ventures, Y Combinator.
Where is Veritus headquartered?
Veritus is headquartered in San Francisco, US.