Farhan Afsahi

Founding Team Member, Beltic · 1 appearance on the record.

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Farhan Afsahi is a tech entrepreneur who founded Verifiet, a SaaS platform providing API-based counterparty verification and fraud prevention for B2B cross-border trade. He later joined the founding team of Beltic, an AI-powered compliance infrastructure startup that automates regulatory workflows and counterparty risk scoring.

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5 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Farhan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Afsahi: Competitors lack B2B fraud data for China, Russia, Middle East
“None of our competitors provide their, any data from regions like China or Russia, Middle East, and we include all of these data in our databases as well.”
Farhan Afsahi Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 13:25 22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not

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Everything Farhan Afsahi said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Afsahi: Competitors lack B2B fraud data for China, Russia, Middle East
“None of our competitors provide their, any data from regions like China or Russia, Middle East, and we include all of these data in our databases as well.”
Farhan Afsahi Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 13:25 22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not
Assertion Partly supported
Afsahi: Russia-Ukraine war sparked a surge in oil industry impersonation fraud
“Right now in the oil industry because of the Russian-Ukraine war there's a lot of fraudulent activities happening that companies in like Ukraine, Russia, and like UAE, Turkey, other some sort of all of countries like these In these regions are for example, co…”
Farhan Afsahi Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 4:28 22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Afsahi: Verified has reached $7,800 ARR with 27 paying customers
“So right now we have about 300 and 80 users out of those 380 about 27 are paying customers and our ARR right now is at 700 and sorry seven, 800 dollars per year.”
Farhan Afsahi Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 8:58 22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Afsahi: Wells Fargo and Shopify have visited Verified and scheduled demos
“Like for example, since 10 months ago a lot of enterprises and like banks, like Wells Fargo Maybank cheaper cash like Corner Shop, which is a subsidiary of Uber Shopify have visited our website. Some of them scheduled a demo to see how they want to use our pr…”
Farhan Afsahi Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 11:23 22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not
Disclosure
Afsahi: Verified is seeking to raise $300,000 for 10% equity
“If it's about, like, 300 K for, like, 10% of the company, yeah.”
Farhan Afsahi Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 12:58 22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Afsahi: ZoomInfo and Clearbit target sales, but Verified targets fraud
“So ZoomInfo or Clearbit and other types of, like, these type of softwares are built for sales mostly, but we are building these for fraud detection and verification. So we are mostly providing reg tech.”
Farhan Afsahi Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 2:31 22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not
Disclosure
Afsahi: Verified provides B2B verification APIs like 'Stripe for verification'
“So verified basically it's like Stripe, but for verification we provide verification APIs for B to B companies that want to learn more about other companies they want to work with.”
Farhan Afsahi Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 0:58 22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Aug 31, 2023 7m
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