WhatA verified registry that tracks the national origin, regulatory jurisdiction, and corporate lineage of AI startups and their key personnel to help investors and acquirers assess geopolitical exposure.
SignalThe Manus situation shows that simply redomiciling to Singapore did not insulate the company from Chinese regulatory reach because the founders and talent remained tied to China — investors and acquirers currently have no reliable way to assess this exposure.
Why NowThe 'Singapore-washing' phenomenon has reached a tipping point where multiple governments are now actively piercing corporate veils based on founder nationality and talent location, making provenance verification a hard requirement for deals.
MarketCorporate development teams at big tech, sovereign wealth funds, and VC firms doing cross-border AI deals; ~$500M TAM as a subset of compliance/KYC tooling; no direct competitor focused specifically on AI entity provenance.
MoatNetwork effect — the more entities verified and tracked, the more complete the ownership graph becomes, making it the default source of truth for deal screening.
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