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Lifetime Ventures Invests in Research AI Startup Veritus
Lifetime Ventures has invested 37.5 million yen in a pre-seed round into Veritus that accelerates the research and development process with AI.
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JETRO-AlchemistX GSAP 2024 – B2B Commercial Traction Course
Veritus joins the Global Startup Acceleration Program to refine enterprise sales with AlchemistX mentors.
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Blitzscaling Academy – JETRO Silicon Valley Immersion 2024
Week-long Palo Alto bootcamp where founders practiced blitz-growth playbooks guided by Reid Hoffman’s team.
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OIST Innovation Accelerator Cohort 2024-25
OIST names Veritus among eight deep-tech startups receiving R&D grants and Okinawa lab resources.
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KGAP+ Batch 12 – Innovation Showcase
Showcased real-time literature insight engine at Keihanna Science City, winning audience choice for research impact.
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GSAP 2024 – Participant List (PDF)
PDF booklet listing all startups in GSAP 2024, including Veritus in the AI track.
READ MOREInterviews and podcasts

AI Founders’ Mindset – Part 1
Founder Manas explains how Veritus turns dense PDFs into conversational answers and speeds up lab discovery.
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AI Founders’ Mindset – Part 2
Discussion on go-to-market strategy: starting with universities before expanding to pharma R&D.
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DataInsta Podcast with Founder Manas
Talk on reducing research reproducibility gaps with document-grounded LLMs.
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SKB VC – Interview with CEO
Covers founding story, technology stack and mission to compress 10-hour literature hunts into minutes.
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JETRO “From Complexity to Clarity” Interview
Manas shares how Veritus helps labs iterate five times faster by automating paper discovery and annotation.
READ MOREEvents/Talks/Panel

Invest in Kobe Feature
Feature on Veritus as a rising Kobe-based deep-tech startup leveraging Japan’s research ecosystem.
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38th CIO ITMA Workshop (Kyoto)
Panel on human-centred AI where Veritus showcased explainable LLM answers linked to citations.
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DeepCore Panel – AI Start-ups by Global Founders
Round-table on scaling challenges; Veritus shared lessons from university pilots.
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AWS Gen-AI Loft – Veritus Pre-Launch Demo
Live demo of semantic search across 100k PDFs streamed at AWS Gen-AI Loft Tokyo.
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AiSalon Tokyo – Generative AI Meetup
Lightning talk on grounding LLMs with context vectors to reduce hallucination in academic answers.
READ MOREPitch Competitions

KOZA Rocks 2024 – Pitch Finalist
Veritus wins Koza Rocks pitch contest highlighting 5× faster scientific breakthroughs.
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Ramen Tech Startup GoGo 2024 – Finalist
Selected among top food-tech startups to pitch AI solutions for Ramen Tech 2024.
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Takeoff Tokyo 2024 – Pitch Contest
Short-listed to pitch among Japan’s top emerging deep-tech startups at Takeoff Tokyo 2024.
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Okinawa University-Startup Showcase
Presented Veritus AI platform to faculty investors at Okinawa University’s startup showcase.
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