Veriport

The compliance API that lets any consumer app pass age and safety laws everywhere.

Veriport is an API and no-code SDK that gives small app and game studios age assurance, parental consent, content gating, and sweepstakes eligibility checks mapped to every jurisdiction's rules.

Infrastructure and APIs
Small business
$1-10B market
Platform others build on
Global from day one

4/5

venture judge

similar startups, last 2 years (6 all-time)

77%

of 3 nearest real companies still alive

yes

8 matching federal grants and programs

Direction supported by government programs and grants

Scorecard

One score that balances how trendy the idea is, the demand for it and its potential for 100x, with competition measured relative to every other idea in the catalog. Recent startup trends first, government priorities second.

Idea Score, 0-100 · raw 38.3 x 1.64

Warm

competition: more crowded than 41% of ideas · headwind x0.80

+2.3

government priorities, secondary (8 matching grants)

Trend

Is the wave forming now? 2025-26 entrants vs 2023-24, rounds since 2025, the sector's live-batch direction, the 2026 trend analyst.

Entrants 2025-26 vs 2023-24 (similar companies)23
Rounds announced 2025+ in the sector25
Sector direction (live batch)0
2026 trend analyst50

Demand

Does anyone want it? YC's current RFS, companies already paid for something similar, the operator judge, founders' yes-rate in decks, readers who would run the test.

YC asks for it (current RFS: idea / sector)60
Someone already pays (similar companies, recent / all-time)50
Operator judge: real pain75

100x potential

Can it return a fund? The venture judge (double weight), market-size and moat axes, neighbours still alive, the technologist judge.

Venture judge75
Market size axis33
Moat axis100
Neighbours still alive81
Technologist judge0

Score = 100 x cbrt(Trend x Demand x 100x) x (1 - 0.5 x crowding) + government bonus (max 5), calibrated so the 95th-percentile idea scores 90 (order never changes). A geometric mean: a weak pillar cannot be papered over. Percentiles are among the 272 ideas in the catalog; the terms matched were compliance, consumer, pass, age, safety, no-code, sdk, game.

The idea in full

What: Veriport is an API and no-code SDK that gives small app and game studios age assurance, parental consent, content gating, and sweepstakes eligibility checks mapped to every jurisdiction's rules. It orchestrates existing verification vendors behind one integration rather than building deep tech itself, and reaches its SMB buyers through channels - game engines, app agencies, and payment platforms bundle it. Revenue builds over 1-3 years as certifications and channel deals land, on pure software margins.
Why now: 215 consumer companies were founded in this cluster in the last two years alone, and the regulatory exposure is visible in the brief itself: PokerClubHub (YC S26) is monetizing poker clubs while Edgar, which brought real-money sweepstakes into free-to-play games, is already in the graveyard - the compliance burden that killed it now hits every social and gaming app as age-assurance laws spread.
Wedge: first customer and entry point: A drop-in age-and-eligibility plugin for one game engine's asset store, priced per verification, aimed at indie studios shipping social or real-money-adjacent features who cannot afford a compliance hire.
Path to 100x: Online safety and age-verification laws are converting every consumer app on earth into a regulated app, creating a $1-10B compliance layer where the winner becomes the default primitive developers build on, the way payments consolidated on a single API. The moat compounds through data: a cross-app graph of reusable verifications and a maintained rules engine for every jurisdiction, both of which get more valuable with each of the thousands of apps that integrate.
Ceiling: If OS-level age signals become the accepted legal standard, per-verification pricing collapses and Veriport is capped as middleware for edge-case jurisdictions.
Closest real companies, as the generator saw them: None tracked - PokerClubHub, Instaplay, and Playabl.ai are prospective customers, not competitors, and Edgar is a graveyard case of a customer that needed this and did not have it.
Main risk: Apple and Google bake age assurance into the OS layer, reducing Veriport to a thin wrapper the platforms make redundant.

Five judges

Each judge scores every idea in the catalog with a named rubric; the venture judge decides whether a card is shown at all (4-5 is venture-grade).

Venture investor
4/5
Age-assurance laws are converting every consumer app into a regulated one, and a reusable cross-app verification graph is the payments-style default primitive.
Bootstrapper
4/5
Orchestrating existing verification vendors is cheap software, and indie studios who cannot afford a compliance hire pay per verification through engine channels.
Operator
4/5
Age-assurance laws make compliance non-optional and Edgar's death proves the cost, and a drop-in engine plugin needs no workflow change from indie studios.
Technologist
1/5
It openly orchestrates existing verification vendors, and Apple or Google shipping OS-level age signals makes it redundant in one release.
Risk
2/5
Apple and Google baking age assurance into the OS makes it a redundant wrapper, and game-engine stores are the sole channel.
trends
3/5
Fits the Proving You're Human and AI-Native Compliance RFS themes, but age-assurance laws spreading was equally arguable in 2023 and no dated statute is cited.

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AutoLotto, Inc.500global 500G GA 14 · 2015 · Consumeracquired
Provider of mobile lottery services intended to help the lottery industry win over millennials. The company's mobile application Tap, tap, ticket, enables users to buy tickets from their smartphone and scan a paper ticket purchased in-store to track it and get notifications if they win, eliminating lost tickets and the need to track down results and ensuring safety and security by verifying user identity, location and age to provide the best and most-legitimate mobile lottery experience.

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The generator's reference companies

Real companies the model named as closest when it wrote the card, with their fate. A check mark is a company the radar could verify in its directory.

Public money in this direction

US federal grants, SBIR/STTR awards and open opportunities from the radar's public-money feed, matched to the idea's terms; the sector totals give the context.

grants and programs matching the idea

startup-relevant grants in Consumer

$8M

awarded in the sector, tracked

I-Corps: Translation Potential of a Non-contact Radar-based Elderly Tracking Systemawardhigh relevance
National Science Foundation · I-Corps · $50K · posted 2026-08-19
The Q-shunt: Prototype development of a medical device to treat fetal bladder outlet obstructionawardhigh relevance
NIH / NIDDK · SBIR phase I · $301K · posted 2026-07-01
Democratizing Early Detection and Longitudinal Monitoring of Alzheimer's Disease: An Ultra-Sensitive Blood-Based Assayawardhigh relevance
NIH / NIA · SBIR phase I · $506K · posted 2025-09-15
Kids Standing Up: Promoting Independent Mobility in Children with Neuromuscular Conditions with a Standing Wheelchairawardhigh relevance
NIH / NICHD · SBIR phase II · $739K · posted 2025-09-05
POSE: Phase I: Scoping OpenDQM – an Open-Source Ecosystem for Distributed Quality Managementawardmedium relevance
National Science Foundation · POSE · $292K · posted 2026-07-28
A New Incentive Design Theory for Learning Agents in Federated Population Gamesawardmedium relevance
National Science Foundation · EPCL: Energy, Power, Control, · $530K · posted 2026-08-10
CAREER: Improving Road Safety and Supporting Infrastructure through Responsible Use of Driving Dataawardmedium relevance
National Science Foundation · ISP-Infrastructre Systms & Ppl, CAREER: FACULTY EARLY CAR DEV · $609K · posted 2026-07-20
NSF FF: Planning: Fostering AI Literacy in Elementary Education Through Game-Based Personal Finance Learning: A Community Co-Design Approachawardmedium relevance
National Science Foundation · Finders Foundry · $50K · posted 2026-07-15

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Market signal

What the radar sees in Consumer: new companies by cohort year, the forming YC batch, and outcomes since the February snapshot.

Consumer · 170 → 218 → 206 → 153 → 49 new companies 2022 → 2026 · 87% aliveYC S26: 8 in this cluster, 3% of the batch (was 5% in X26) (F26 is still forming: 21 listed)Since February, of 787 YC companies here: 2 acquired, 4 shut down, 37 rewrote their pitch

Consumer: companies, trend and grants →

Design attributes

The card is one cell of a designed set: every axis below was chosen before the text was written, and the text had to realize it.

Buyer: Small business
Business model: Infrastructure and APIs
Path to 100x: Platform others build on
Market size: $1-10B market
Capital intensity: Capital-light (software margins)
Speed to revenue: Revenue in 1-3 years
Technical depth: Integrations, no-code
Go-to-market: Partners and channels
Moat: Data moat
Geography: Global from day one
Regulation: Heavily regulated
Vibe: Hot space