The verified checkmark for private secondary markets.
LayerOne is the independent verification layer beneath the platforms, brokers, and banks that move private shares. Verify once, with one neutral party. The other side sees a verified status, never your confidential documents, and you carry that credential into every deal.
A $233 billion market still running on trust.
Private secondary deals run on informal trust and repeated disclosure. Buyers hand over their most sensitive information again and again, deals collapse on paper no one can stand up, and no one in the chain can see the real risk, even as serious capital now screens self-certification before it will allocate.
Buyers pay for access with their privacy
To get into a deal, a buyer has to prove funds and identity, handing bank statements, KYC, and source-of-wealth to brokers and counterparties they barely know. That information gets kept, reused, and re-marketed, and every new deal means exposing it all over again.
Recycled documents and fake blocks
The same proof of funds circulates through three brokers at once. Nobody checks. Deals collapse at closing, after weeks of work, when the capital or the shares cannot be stood up.
Unverified broker chains
Multi-layer chains where no one checks registration or mandate. In January 2025 the SEC charged PMAC Consulting $3M for activity every platform in the chain had missed.
Issuers see nothing until it's too late
A company declines a buyer. That buyer reappears through a different vehicle months later. No infrastructure catches it, and no one can see who ultimately holds the shares.
Lost per deal on counterparties who turn out unable to close.
A single SEC enforcement action against an unregistered broker, January 2025.
Independent, pre-transaction verification products built for this market.
Not a marketplace. The verification layer underneath all of them.
Share your information once, with one neutral party, not with every broker on every deal. The counterparty receives a verified status, never your documents. And because the credential is portable, one verification becomes your entry into every deal and platform LayerOne reaches.
Send the link
A broker, GP, or bank sends one permanent link through any channel.
Submit once
The counterparty uploads funds, identity, and ownership documentation just once, shared only with LayerOne.
Verified
Automated triage and human review check the documents, and a structured profile is produced with a clear status on every item.
Deal proceeds
The counterparty carries a verified status into the deal, on verified footing, not a broker's word.
One engine. A clear answer before any deal moves.
A focused set of tools that turn scattered paperwork into a single, portable source of truth about a counterparty.
One permanent link
Every broker, GP, and bank gets a single link to send through their own channels. No new platform, no login for the counterparty, and no re-verifying across deals.
Independent verification engine
A two-stage process pairs automated triage with human review. It checks document recency, runs sanctions and PEP screening, and maps the beneficial-ownership chain. AI clears the routine cases, which makes deep, deal-level verification economical for the first time.
Portable, living credential
A verified profile that travels across every platform and does not go stale. Each credential is continuously re-screened against live sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media data, and refreshed at the point of each transaction. Verified once, current on every deal that follows.
Dashboards and audit trail
Every role sees exactly what it needs: who is verified, what is on file, what is ready to move, all backed by a complete, timestamped, exportable audit trail.
One verification engine, built for every side of the deal.
You submit documents once, to LayerOne. Every block here already knows you are verified, and the other side never receives your paperwork.
You send one link and receive documented profiles. Every introduction is timestamped, so your compliance record builds itself.
Verification runs programmatically inside your own flow. Participants are checked at the moment they act, and the result returns to you automatically.
You see the people behind each vehicle, not just its name. Ownership is mapped through to the individuals, so a decision you make once can be applied again.
Illustrative interface, not a live product screen
Buyers
Prove yourself once and get free, verified access to every deal, without handing your financial life to another broker on every introduction.
Brokers & GPs
Send one link across your network and receive documented, verified profiles, instead of chasing counterparties who turn out not to be real.
Banks & marketplaces
Run structured tenders and clear the trust gap on bidders and blocks, with a timestamped record for every step.
Issuers
See verified holders and ownership behind the vehicles trading their shares, and act on it.
Built to be the standard, not another platform.
The network is the moat
LayerOne stays neutral across every venue and is owned by none of them. A verification that works everywhere can only come from a layer that competes with no one. The credit bureau model, for private markets.
FINRA-registered from day one
LayerOne operates under Umergence LLC, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. The regulatory structure that takes most startups years to build is already in place, and Umergence is the first BD Platform customer.
First patent accepted
The multi-stage AI-plus-human verification method and its portable credential have been filed, and the first patent appears accepted. Every major feature is patented before it goes live.
You're not the product
A buyer shares their information once, with one neutral party. The counterparty sees a verified status, never the documents behind it. Held only as long as the credential is valid, and never sold or re-marketed.
Direct experience of the problem. Participants, not observers.
Founders
Dusan Stanarevic
Co-Founder & CEOA licensed broker in the private secondary market with a deep European investor and broker network. He started LayerOne after living the verification problem firsthand.
Elijah Gutman
Co-Founder & Head of ProductWorks at the intersection of AI, technology, and finance. He leads product and the design of the verification engine.
Advisory board
Mario Grigorov
AdvisorAn exited founder turned investor, currently representing several family offices and WSS, a syndicate of ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
David Logan
AdvisorFounder of Umergence, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer, and the regulatory foundation LayerOne is built on.
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