Pre-transaction verification infrastructure

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.

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Secondary volume, 2025
$233B
Year over year growth
53%
Verification, portable everywhere
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Applications on file
Patent pending

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 travels with you to every deal and platform LayerOne reaches.

  1. Step 1

    Send the link

    A broker, GP, or bank sends one permanent link through any channel.

  2. Step 2

    Submit once

    The counterparty uploads funds, identity, and ownership documentation just once, shared only with LayerOne.

  3. Step 3

    Verified

    Automated triage and human review check the documents. A structured profile records a status on every item: what was checked, from where, and when.

  4. Step 4

    Deal proceeds

    The counterparty carries a verified status into the deal, on verified footing, not a broker’s word.

Problem

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 out self-certification before it allocates.

  • 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.

Weeks
Lost per deal on counterparties who turn out unable to close.
$3M
A single SEC enforcement action against an unregistered broker, January 2025.

Product

One engine. A clear answer before any deal moves.

A focused set of tools that turn scattered paperwork into one portable, current credential for a counterparty, with a status on every item.

  • 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.

  • Portable, living credential

    A verified profile that travels across every platform and is kept current within its recency windows. Each credential is re-screened against 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.

What a result is, and is not.

Every result is a point-in-time observation with its sources and time stated, not a guarantee that funds or shares exist or will be there at settlement. LayerOne never holds funds, moves money, matches counterparties or executes a trade. Your own compliance obligations stay yours; our results are inputs to them.

Who it serves

One verification engine, built for every side of the deal.

Buyers

Prove yourself once and carry a current credential into every deal that accepts it, without handing your financial life to another broker on every introduction.

You submit documents once, to LayerOne. Every venue here already sees your current credential, and the other side never receives your paperwork.

LayerOne · BuyerCredential current
CurrentCredential status
4Documents on file
12Venues it reaches
  • Late-stage softwareVerified blockMinimum · $1.2MStructure · directAccepts your credential
  • Enterprise infrastructureVerified blockMinimum · $500KAccepts your credential
  • Payments platform tenderVerified blockMinimum · $1.5MCredential shared
Illustrative interface, not a live product screen

Why LayerOne

Built to be the standard, not another platform.

  • Independent and neutral

    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.

  • Filed with the USPTO

    Patent pending

    The multi-stage AI-plus-human verification method and its portable credential are the subject of patent applications on file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

  • Built around privacy

    You’re not the product

    A buyer shares their information once, with one neutral party. Your documents are held only as long as the credential is current, and never sold or re-marketed.

Team

Direct experience of the problem. Participants, not observers.

Founders

  • Dusan Stanarevic, Co-Founder & CEO

    Dusan Stanarevic

    Co-Founder & CEO

    A 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 Product

    Elijah Gutman

    Co-Founder & Head of Product

    Works at the intersection of AI, technology, and finance. He leads product and the design of the verification engine.

Advisory board

  • Mario Grigorov, Advisor

    Mario Grigorov

    Advisor

    An exited founder turned investor, currently representing several family offices and WSS, a syndicate of ultra-high-net-worth individuals.

  • David Logan, Advisor

    David Logan

    Advisor

    Founder of Umergence, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer.

Contact

Let’s talk.

Whether you run a desk, a platform, or a fund, we would like to hear from you. Tell us a little about yourself and we will follow up.

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