Veritus

Veritus provides an AI-driven platform designed to streamline and accelerate research workflows for academics, researchers, and R&D teams. The company's core service consolidates various research tasks into a single secure platform, including literature discovery, manuscript analysis, and organizing notes. Veritus aims to reduce the time spent on manual processes like literature reviews, allowing researchers to focus on innovation. The platform features tools for strengthening draft manuscripts by benchmarking them against other papers, performing literature reviews using abstracts or full papers, and obtaining source-tracked answers to specific research questions with a claim of zero hallucinations.

The idea for Veritus was conceived by CEO Manas Kala while he was an intern at the venture capital firm Plug and Play, although the product development began around June 2024. Kala, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, co-founded the company with a team that includes a pharmaceutical researcher. The founding team's personal experiences with research inefficiencies, such as peer review delays and repetitive literature searches, inspired the creation of the AI tools. The company's go-to-market strategy involves initially targeting universities before expanding to pharmaceutical R&D departments. In July 2025, Veritus secured ¥37.5 million in a pre-seed funding round from Lifetime Ventures to accelerate its R&D and AI development.

The business operates on a platform-based model, offering tools to enhance productivity for tasks like providing feedback on student manuscripts, preparing for research meetings, and streamlining grant writing. Veritus is trusted by professors and researchers from institutions such as Osaka University, Kyushu University, and Celona Inc. Key personnel include CEO Manas Kala, COO Anh Ngo, who has a background in medical sciences, and Senior Software Development Engineer Sharath C. Sheripally.

Keywords: research workflow automation, AI for research, academic research tools, literature review automation, manuscript analysis, scientific research platform, R&D productivity, AI research assistant, document analysis, grant writing tools, research and development, data extraction, source-tracked answers, academic innovation, research collaboration