VeryAI Raises $10M in Seed Funding to Expand Proof of Reality Platform

The internet used to run on a simple assumption: if it looked human, it probably was. That assumption is getting expensive. VeryAI just stepped into that gap with a point to prove. VeryAI just pulled in $10M in seed funding, led by Polychain Capital with Berggruen Institute and Anagram in the mix. That is a serious table for a company that decided CAPTCHAs were basically the digital equivalent of asking “are you a robot” while robots pass with honors. Credit to Zach Meltzer, Founder and CEO of VeryAI, for leaning into a problem most people are still pretending is manageable.

Zach Meltzer is not new to scale. At Galxe, he helped push the platform past 6,000 partners and 34 million users, which is not luck, that is pattern recognition. Now he is applying that same energy to identity, where the stakes are a little higher than engagement metrics and a lot closer to trust itself.

The product is where things get interesting. VeryAI is building a Proof of Reality platform using palm-print biometrics through a standard smartphone camera. No extra hardware, no sci-fi theatrics. Just your hand, something you do not casually upload to the internet every five minutes like your face. Pair that with AI-driven deepfake detection and you get Proof of Personhood plus Proof of Authenticity in one clean motion.

And the numbers are not just for show. A reported false acceptance rate of 1 in 10 million for a single hand, tightening to 1 in 100 trillion with two hands. That is the kind of math that makes traditional identity checks start sweating through their login screens.

Hua Yang, Chief Science Officer at VeryAI, brings the kind of credibility you cannot fake, with decades in palm biometrics and over 50 publications and patents. This is not a weekend project dressed up with a landing page. This is deep technical groundwork meeting a very current problem.

The play here is bigger than crypto or fintech, even if those are the first pressure points. When bots can talk, faces can be generated, and voices can be cloned, the question shifts from “is this convenient” to “is this real.” VeryAI is betting that verification becomes infrastructure, not a feature.

There is a lesson baked into this round if you are paying attention. The companies getting funded right now are not chasing noise, they are reducing it. Zach Meltzer and team are not trying to win the internet, they are trying to make sure the internet knows who is actually there.