Veridion Raises $20M to Keep 642 Million Company Profiles Continuously Updated — Because Static Data Stopped Selling
Veridion announced a $20 million Series A on September 16, 2026, led by Hoxton Ventures, with existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. It is the company's largest round and brings total funding past €25 million (about $27.5 million), following seed rounds of €1.3 million and €5.1 million.
What Veridion sells is a "business graph" it describes as a continuously updated digital replica of the global business landscape: by its own figures, 642 million companies across 249 countries with 461 attributes each, built by reading company websites, public registries, regulatory filings, online product catalogues, social profiles and news sources. The company says it delivers market intelligence up to 52 times faster than traditional sources while covering more than 30 times as many businesses. As The Next Web noted in its coverage, Veridion's materials do not define what counts as a company, and its own release rounds the figure to 640 million.
The growth curve is the striking part. When the company raised $6 million in 2023 under its former name Soleadify, it described a weekly-updated database of more than 80 million company profiles. Three years later the claim is roughly eight times larger.
Experian is the proof point
The substantive part of the announcement is the named partner. Experian's director of data strategy and innovation, Jon Roughley, said Veridion's signals let Experian capture "risk that traditional credit data simply couldn't see" and score businesses that were previously invisible to its clients. Veridion says four of the world's six major credit rating agencies now use its data.
Veridion was founded as Soleadify in Romania by Florin Tufan with Sorina Vlăsceanu and Mihai Vinaga; the funding announcement was datelined London. It is Hoxton's second investment in a Romanian enterprise AI company after Druid AI.
Why it matters
Veridion's customers are risk, insurance, procurement and market-intelligence buyers, not SDR teams. That is exactly why the round is worth reading if you sell B2B: the money is going to the same thesis, one market over. A credit bureau will now pay for continuously refreshed company signals because quarterly-refreshed records mispriced risk. The sales equivalent of mispriced risk is a prospecting list that was true last quarter.
This is the third straight month in which capital moved toward freshness rather than coverage. ZoomInfo booked a $651 million goodwill impairment while the market repriced the B2B contact database. Clay raised at $7.1 billion on a thesis about interpreting signals rather than storing records. Veridion's pitch is that the record itself has to be alive.
Fresh company data still is not a buying signal
Here is the limit, and it applies to every provider in this category. A live company graph tells you a target opened a new location, posted a role, changed a product line or filed something. Those are events about a company. They are inference, not intent — they narrow who could buy, which is a targeting problem, not a timing problem.
Timing comes from a person doing something. Buying signals that actually convert are individual-level and observable: a named VP reading your post, viewing your profile, coming back a week later. One signal is awareness; three in 30 days is intent. No company-level attribute, however fresh, produces that.
The practical move is to use both layers in order. Let company data define the account universe. Let engagement decide the week's outreach. The process for converting engagement into pipeline is what connects them.
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Sources: Tech.eu, "Veridion lands $20M to take business intelligence beyond static data" (September 16, 2026); The Next Web, "Veridion's database has gone from 80 million companies to 642 million in three years"; The Recursive, "Veridion Raises $20M Series A to Map the World's Businesses in Real Time"; Tech Funding News; FinSMEs.