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Niva provides a global business identity platform that leverages AI to automate Know Your Business (KYB) processes. Its core product streamlines compliance and fraud prevention by verifying business identities and meeting international regulatory requirements, significantly reducing onboarding times from weeks to mere minutes. The platform employs AI agents for comprehensive analysis, ensuring both speed and accuracy in validating business information and documents across diverse global markets.
The company was co-founded by Abhinav Rai, who serves as CEO, and Akhil Naini, the CTO, emerging from stealth in 2024. Rai's prior experience as General Manager at Enigma, where he led KYB product development, revealed a critical unmet need for international business verification solutions, particularly in emerging markets. Naini contributes a decade of engineering leadership from roles at Gusto, Coinbase, and Chime, bringing extensive expertise in onboarding processes.
Niva’s platform serves fast-growing international fintechs, cross-border marketplaces, and other high-growth startups seeking to expand globally, with current customers including Xepelin and Aplazo. The company’s vision is to establish a universal identity layer that fosters trust between businesses worldwide, addressing the inherent complexities and risks of cross-border transactions. It aims to empower businesses to scale securely and efficiently by transforming the landscape of global commerce.
Niva has raised $9.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Niva has raised $9.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Niva has raised $9.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Niva's investors include devlabs, Kaszek Ventures, Resolute Ventures, jose maria navarro, 10100, Antiportfolio Ventures, Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, C2 Investment, Canary Ventures, Gradient Ventures, ICONIQ Capital.
Niva is a technology company founded in 2023 that builds an AI-powered platform for universal business identity verification, enabling instant, reliable, and borderless Know Your Business (KYB) checks to combat fraud and meet regulatory requirements like AML.[1][2][3] It serves financial institutions and platforms engaged in cross-border commerce—where B2B transactions exceed $150T and 97% of activity occurs—solving the manual, country-specific friction in verifying businesses, which involves multilingual ops training, regional laws, and fraud detection.[1][2] Niva's growth momentum includes early investment from Kaszek (active status), under $5M in total funding across one round, a small team (<25 employees), SOC-2 Type 2 compliance, and features like 95%+ accurate document interpretation (e.g., power of attorney, shareholder agreements) via APIs that integrate seamlessly into onboarding flows.[1][3][5]
Niva was co-founded in 2023 by Abhinav Rai (CEO) and Akhil Naini (CTO), who identified the core pain in global B2B verification amid exploding cross-border commerce.[1][2][3] The idea emerged from the inefficiencies of manual KYB processes—flawed, nuanced per country, and resistant to scaling ops teams across languages and regulations—prompting an AI-driven universal identity layer.[1][2] Early traction includes Kaszek investment, a New York/Delaware base, and rapid development of compliant tools like tamper detection and regulator-ready reports, positioning it as a stealth-mode innovator in security software.[1][3][4][5]
Niva rides the AI-for-trust trend in a digitizing world, where cross-border commerce surges but KYB friction stalls 97% of B2B deals due to manual, localized verification.[1][2] Timing aligns with rising regulatory pressures (AML/KYB) and fraud in $150T+ global trade, amplified by post-pandemic digital acceleration.[1][2] Market forces like AI advancements in document AI and data aggregation favor Niva, enabling scalable, accurate alternatives to fragmented regional tools.[5] It influences the ecosystem by unlocking commerce for fintechs and platforms, driving economic growth through faster onboarding and reduced fraud, while setting standards for AI compliance in security software.[2][3][5]
Niva is poised to dominate AI-driven KYB as global B2B trade expands, with next steps likely including product launches, further funding beyond its initial <$5M, and global API expansions for high-volume institutions.[3][5] Trends like stricter AML regs, multimodal AI for docs/data, and embedded finance will propel it, potentially evolving from verifier to full trust layer in decentralized commerce. As cross-border barriers crumble, Niva's universal identity could redefine effortless global business trust, accelerating the $150T opportunity it targets from day one.[1][2]
Niva has raised $9.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $6.0M Seed in March 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2025 | $6.0M Seed | devlabs, Kaszek Ventures, Resolute Ventures, jose maria navarro | |
| Jul 1, 2024 | $3.0M Seed | 10100, Antiportfolio Ventures, Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, C2 Investment, Canary Ventures, Gradient Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Lead Edge Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Hans Tung, Otherwise Fund, Picus Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Tola Capital, Brandon Deer, Fabian Gomez Gutierrez, Felipe Villamarin, Simon Borrero |