Company & Investment Overview

The Problem

Every regulated business faces the same broken cycle: each new customer must verify their identity from scratch at every service provider, every single time. The result is a fragmented compliance stack where companies pay for tools but still carry the full compliance overhead themselves.

• Customer Friction: Users are asked to re-submit documents they have already verified elsewhere, driving onboarding abandonment and slowing conversion
• Operational Drag: Compliance teams spend most of their time on manual reviews, repetitive checks, and vendor management instead of real risk decisions
• Data Liability: Every vendor stores another copy of customer PII in a centralized database, multiplying security risk and regulatory exposure with each new integration

The Zyphe Solution

Zyphe replaces the disposable-check model with identity as persistent, reusable infrastructure. We are the identity layer, not a one-time check, with compliance automation built on top.

• Persistent Identity: A user verifies once through Zyphe, then reuses verified credentials across providers with consent. Verification stops restarting from zero
• User-Owned Vaults: Documents, liveness, AML results, and risk data live in encrypted user-owned vaults, not in your database or ours, making portability possible without copying raw PII everywhere
• Compliance as a Service: On top of the identity layer, AI-powered agents automate manual reviews, AML screening, document verification, and fraud detection so compliance scales with the business, not with headcount

Legacy KYC vendors sell a disposable check. Zyphe gives users a portable identity and compliance teams an AI workforce.

Company Facts

• Founded: 2025 - Delaware C-Corp (US)
• Stage: Pre-seed
• Total Raised: $1.6M to date
• Team: Lean, globally distributed - 5 senior engineers + leadership
• Website: zyphe.com  |  Docs: docs.zyphe.com

Competitive Positioning

Technical Infrastructure

• Encryption & Credentials: Encrypted user vaults and verifiable credential issuance (PoC complete, production deployment in progress)
• Engineering: 5 senior engineers; actively hiring Senior AI Engineer, DevSecOps, and Director of Engineering
• Process: Fully migrated to Linear for project management; modern CI/CD pipeline

Key Metrics (Q1 2026)

Go-to-Market Strategy

Zyphe has evolved to a founder-led, enterprise-focused GTM motion after testing and sunsetting lower-performing channels. The current strategy focuses on high-conversion activities:

• Founder-led sales: Direct engagement with enterprise decision-makers, supported by high-signal events (Token2049, Stripe Sessions) as top ROI channel
• SEO-driven inbound: Organic traffic scaled 20x in 4 months. After rebuilding the SEO team, the channel is now converting: 6 inbound demo requests in the last 4 weeks (vs. 0 in the prior 12 months), with 1 closed to contract in under a week
• Strategic partnerships: Warm introductions through investors, partners, and advisors with highest conversion rates
• ICP: Regulated companies with existing KYC volume, internal compliance staff, operating across multiple geographies where manual reviews are a bottleneck and liability is expensive

Sales Motion

• Enterprise sales cycle: ~9–18 months
• Mid-market closing velocity: ~45–90 days
• Best channels: Founder intros, high-signal events, SEO-driven inbound

Strategic Partnership, Not a Fundraise

Zyphe is not actively fundraising. We are looking for the right partner. With Yzi Labs as a commercial partner and trusted entity in the ecosystem, we can scale to $10M+ ARR within 12 months through direct access to portfolio companies and partner networks alone.

• What we need: A commercial partner with deep Web3 ecosystem relationships, portfolio access, and credibility in regulated markets
• What we offer: Production-ready compliance infrastructure that every exchange, wallet, and regulated entity in the Yzi Labs portfolio needs
• The math: Yzi Labs' portfolio and partner network represents enough qualified demand to drive $10M+ ARR without outbound sales

Unit Economics & Revenue Model

• Platform Fee: $295/month starter tier with tiered pricing for higher volumes
• Usage-Based Credits: Per-verification charges scaling with volume
• Enterprise Custom: Volume discounts and custom SLAs for high-volume accounts
• Expansion Revenue: Customers expand into additional geographies, verification types, and compliance modules

Detailed financial projections, cap table, and P&L available under NDA.

Active Customers

Enterprise accounts    Showing select customers. Full reference list available upon NDA.

Active Pilots & POCs

In pilot or POC stage

Qualified Pipeline (Web3)

In pipeline    Enterprise and mid-market accounts in active discussions.

Banking Expansion

Cooperation contracts are being finalized with 10 European banks, representing Zyphe's entry into the traditional finance sector. This expansion validates the platform's regulatory rigor and positions Zyphe as a bridge between Web3-native compliance and traditional banking requirements.

Key Financial Services Companies

Strategic financial services names validating Zyphe's expansion into regulated payment and banking infrastructure.

System Integrators & Partners

Channel, implementation, and ecosystem partners that expand Zyphe's distribution and enterprise integration reach.

Development Phases

Two-week sprint cadence. Core platform is production-hardened; emerging AI capabilities are being built on proven infrastructure.

Near-Term Priorities (2026)

• Agentic Compliance v1: First production release of AI agents for auto-resolving manual review cases with full auditability
• Banking Integrations: Technical integration work for the 10 European banks in the pipeline
• Platform Scalability: Multi-region deployment and infrastructure hardening for enterprise SLA requirements

Reference Customers

We're happy to facilitate direct introductions to current enterprise customers for independent validation of our platform and team.

• Enterprise customer references available for compliance automation use cases
• Web3 exchange and wallet integration references
• Banking and traditional finance pilot references

Corporate Structure

• Entity: Zyphe Inc. - Delaware C-Corp (USA)
• Founded: 2025
• Registered Agent: Delaware, United States
• Stage: Pre-seed

Full corporate documents, certificate of incorporation, bylaws, and cap table available under NDA.

Intellectual Property

• Platform IP: All platform code, algorithms, and proprietary compliance models are fully owned by Zyphe Inc.
• Agentic Compliance Models: Proprietary deterministic decision models and multi-agent architecture represent core defensible IP
• Reusable Identity Architecture: Novel approach to portable, encrypted identity credentials - potential patent filings under evaluation
• Trade Secrets: Compliance agent training data, decision models, and risk scoring algorithms
• Data Moat: Every verification processed trains and improves our compliance models. As volume grows, decision accuracy increases and false positive rates drop, creating a compounding data advantage that new entrants cannot replicate without processing equivalent scale

Regulatory & Data Protection Posture

• GDPR-Native Architecture: Privacy-by-design with user-owned encrypted vaults, data minimization, and right-to-erasure built into the platform core
• eIDAS Alignment: Liveness detection and identity verification flows designed to meet eIDAS-certified security levels
• Data Residency: Multi-region deployment supports EU and global data residency requirements
• AML/CTF Screening: Real-time screening against OFAC, FATF, EU terrorist lists, and INTERPOL databases
• MiCA Ready: Platform architecture supports Markets in Crypto Assets regulation compliance for European clients

SOC 2 certification timeline and additional regulatory documentation available upon request.

Why Yzi Labs Is the Right Partner

Every exchange, wallet, and regulated entity in the Yzi Labs portfolio needs compliant KYC/KYB/AML infrastructure. Zyphe is built exactly for them. This is not a general alignment - it is a direct commercial fit.

• Portfolio as Pipeline: Yzi Labs' portfolio companies are our exact ICP. Warm introductions from a trusted investor convert faster and at higher deal sizes than any other channel. With access to the Yzi Labs network alone, we project a path to $10M+ ARR within the first year of partnership
• Ecosystem Credibility: Yzi Labs' endorsement signals trust to every Web3 company evaluating compliance vendors. Being backed by the ecosystem's most recognized investor removes the biggest friction in enterprise sales: trust
• Web3-Native Demand: Zyphe already serves exchanges, wallets, and DeFi protocols. Trust Wallet is interested to start, Binance Italy is in conversations. Yzi Labs accelerates these deals and opens dozens more like them
• AI + Compliance: Agentic compliance automation is a genuine AI-native product - deterministic decision models and multi-agent architecture represent a defensible moat that deepens with every verification processed through the network
• Regulatory Tailwinds: MiCA in Europe, evolving global crypto regulations, and increasing institutional adoption all drive urgent demand for the exact infrastructure Zyphe provides

The $10M ARR Thesis

Zyphe's current GTM proves the product sells. What limits growth is access, not product-market fit. Yzi Labs solves the access problem:

• Direct intros to portfolio exchanges, wallets, and regulated platforms that already need KYC/AML infrastructure
• Co-selling leverage - Yzi Labs' recommendation carries more weight than any outbound campaign
• Faster close cycles - trust is pre-established, reducing enterprise sales cycles from months to weeks
• Expansion revenue - once integrated, customers expand across geographies, verification types, and compliance modules

This is not a hope - it is arithmetic. The Yzi Labs network contains enough qualified demand to hit $10M+ ARR in year one with the right level of commercial partnership.

• NDA Execution: Happy to sign Yzi Labs' standard NDA to unlock deeper financial and technical materials, especially on GTM strategy, key learnings, and technology architecture
• Reference Calls: We can facilitate introductions to current enterprise customers for independent validation. Binance and Trust Wallet are available for direct outreach. Current investors are also happy to do reference calls
• Technical Deep Dive: Optional session with our CTO to walk through architecture, security model, and agentic compliance internals
• Term Sheet Discussion: Once due diligence is complete, discuss investment terms and structure