Empower advisors. Transform businesses. Create global value.
Veristone is building the global infrastructure for private markets: AI-first, partner-led, and distributed exclusively through the world's accounting profession.
Founded to fix a broken middle.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of privately held businesses face a transition — a sale, a succession, a strategic investment, or an acquisition. Most never reach an institutional advisor. The bulge brackets do not serve them; the regional intermediaries lack global reach.
Veristone was founded by George Molakal on a simple thesis: the accountants who already hold the trusted relationship with these businesses are the right channel. Give them institutional-grade analytics, a global buyer network, and a partner economics model that respects their profession — and the middle market gets the infrastructure it deserves.
Everything we build follows from that thesis. AI-first analytics because scale demands it. Partner-led distribution because trust cannot be bought. Institutional execution through Sterling Mercer because outcomes are what matter.
The team behind the platform.
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The advisory arm.
Sterling Mercer is Veristone's institutional M&A advisory arm. It executes sell-side and buy-side mandates originated through the partner network, from engagement letter through close.
In jurisdictions where local regulation requires it, Sterling Mercer works alongside a licensed local advisor. In every mandate, the introducing partner firm retains the client relationship and receives the agreed revenue share on every fee stream.