Founders hand over cap tables, financials and pre-announcement information. So no firm sees a single submission until it has been verified against registration records, domain provenance and filing history. Most applications never reach a human.
Anyone can register a domain that reads like a fund, build a team page in an afternoon and write a plausible thesis. What cannot be faked quickly is a record: registration with a regulator, filings that show capital actually deployed, a domain older than the interest, and a mail server that has existed longer than the application.
Checked against SEC IAPD, Form ADV and FINRA BrokerCheck. Family offices below the filing threshold are verified through counsel or bank reference instead — absence of a filing is a question, not a rejection.
Registration date, registrar, and whether the domain matches the entity as filed. A firm that has operated for eleven years does not have a domain registered last month — and a .co that shadows an established .com is the oldest trick in the category.
SEC Form D filings and public rounds showing capital actually placed, at what size and in what sectors. A firm that has never appeared on a filing has never written a cheque anyone recorded.
Named principals corroborated across the firm site, filings and public record. Working mail on the firm domain — not a free mailbox, not a catch-all forwarder created the same week.
The checks are deterministic — they either pass or they do not, and nothing is generated. What a model never gets to decide is whether a borderline firm is admitted.
Domain younger than the claimed track record, a lookalike TLD, no mail server, no filing history anywhere. Never reaches a person.
Registration, filings, domain and principals all corroborate. Access granted — and re-verified quarterly, because firms wind down.
A real family office with no public filings looks identical to a fabrication on paper. That call is made by a human, on a call.
Verification is the floor, not consent. A founder chooses which verified firms see their materials, and can withdraw at any time.
Five fields. Verification usually completes within the hour; anything held for review comes back within two business days.
We check public records only — regulator registries, filings, domain registration and DNS. No credit check, no personal data, and nothing is shared with founders until you are verified and they choose to share.