Veriff has acquired Vespia, an Estonia-based Know Your Business technology provider, the company said on 5 February 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. Veriff framed the deal as strengthening KYB capabilities and expanding beyond identity verification toward a broader, single-vendor trust platform.
Vespia, co-founded in 2021 by Julia Ront and Anton Vedešin, offered real-time business verification across more than 300 jurisdictions, according to the announcement. Ront was Veriff's second employee before leaving to build Vespia. The Vespia team is joining Veriff, with technology integration aimed at making KYB commercially available across Veriff's platform by mid-2026 as of the announcement date.
Founder and chief executive Kaarel Kotkas said: "KYB has historically been slow, manual, and painful. We don't want to fix it incrementally; we want to fundamentally rethink it. Do it 10 times better than it has been done before – real-time, end-to-end KYB from a single platform built to the same standard our customers expect from Veriff." Julia Ront, co-founder and chief executive of Vespia, said: "We proved that business verification can be fast and global. Being part of Veriff, we can now scale that work within a larger, unified trust platform."
About-block customers named for Veriff include Blockchain, Bolt, Deel, Monzo, Starship, Trustpilot and Webull. Deal value remains undisclosed.