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Veria Labs

Fall 2025 · Active

Continuous AI pentesting that finds and fixes vulnerabilities

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 3

About

Veria Labs is developing AI agents that hack better than the best human hackers. Founded by members of the #1 US competitive hacking team, we've already manually found critical bugs in AI tools, operating systems, fintech and billion dollar crypto exchanges. Now we're scaling that expertise through AI-native security tooling that operates faster than human researchers while finding deeper, more complex vulnerabilities that traditional tools miss.

Founders

  • Stephen XuFounder

    Previously doing Offensive Security @ TikTok, and play on the #1 CTF (competitive hacking) team in the US. Also used to do computational physics research at some point.

  • Cayden LiaoFounder

    I've previously done work in the Web3 security space writing fuzzers for crypto and zero knowledge protocols. Otherwise, I'm a recruited swimmer for college and am part of the #1 CTF (competitive hacking) team in the US.

  • Jayden SarveshkumarFounder

    web exploitation @ .;,;. (#1 US competitive hacking team). previously bootstrapped a side project to 8k mrr. now working on the future of security @ Veria Labs.