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Serval

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Serval is the AI-native ESM that automates employee requests, onboarding/offboarding, just-in-time access, and more. observed

fresh · evidence today 13 sources no confidence data
66.2/100
Venture signal
scored above 60% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 In the ranked index Yes

    The ranked index lists private, early-stage AI companies with two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is listed in the ranked index. It is a statement about evidence and mandate, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

    UNKNOWN (not a soft no, never counted as qualified). Blocker: No source states a band-bearing stage for any financing event we hold.

    Venture backing: not found · Stage band: UNKNOWN — No source states a band-bearing stage for any financing event we hold.

    What would overturn this:

    Assessed 2026-11-06 for seed/Series-A sourcing.

Funding
$150M
2026-10-29
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
23
eng openings
Commercial
public pricing
homepage

Composite signal v0 43 ±14 · 3 components

Five evidence lanes (activity, capital, infra, hiring, ecosystem) as within-cohort percentiles, combined with evidence-breadth weights over the 60-company baseline cohort. The ± band widens with missing lanes — it measures what the score stands on. 4 signals in the last 60 days back this number.

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

api.serval.com product surface 10-29 app.serval.com product surface 10-29 internal.serval.com 10-29 internal.eu1.serval.com 10-29

Traction

Latest cited round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (20% of the score).

↓ Scored on 3 of 5 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.

10 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

8 claims on record 0 verified 0 contradicted 8 still unproven

Unproven ≠ false — it means the deadline or the evidence hasn't arrived. Nothing here is editorial: every count is a ledger row you can open on the Proof page.

Evaluation

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Platform score derived
66/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
11/100
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VIX signals 4 hard signals across 1 source ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Team size (reported)
not provided
Open eng roles
23 observed
Total open roles
63 observed
Market & funding stage 1 of 3 signals present ▾
Funding stage
not provided
Lifecycle stage
not provided
Latest round stage
unknown observed
Timeline 1 events ▾
  1. 2026-10-29 unknown · $150M

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 66.2/100 for serval, composed from 3 of 5 components (enterprise formula), discounted ×0.88 for 60% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.9764 0.1953
funding_magnitude 0.3 0.6704 0.2011
hiring 0.1 0.5521 0.0552

Evidence this score rests on

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$150M unknown
announced 2026-10-29 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-10-29
Money moved on or after
2026-10-29
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-10-29 by its own source.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.06

Gray-market attention, not quality. 15+ HN mentions (peak 58 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. ▲ 58 Serval Mesh: P2P communication app for disaster zones 2017-04-02 ↗

Raw observations 61 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
ai.document.claims {"claims": [{"claim": "Serval is positioned as an AI-native enterprise service management and ITSM platform.", "quote": "serval: AI-Native Enterprise Service Management and ITSM", "topic": "Product po observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 promoted 0.50
buyer_fit.assessment {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. observed assessment 2026-11-06 normalized 0.90
buyer_fit.status unknown observed assessment 2026-11-06 normalized 0.90
common_name Serval observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
common_name Serval observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 58 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 15 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14016365", "title": "Serval Mesh: P2P communication app for disaster zones", "points": 58, "created_at": "2017-04-02"} observed artifact ↗ 2017-04-02 normalized 0.20
description Serval is the AI-native ESM that automates employee requests, onboarding/offboarding, just-in-time access, and more. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.70
domain www.serval.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.95
early_signal.assessment {"rule": "operational-early-signal-v1", "missing": ["no website established independently of the name — identity unverified"], "signals": [{"value": 63, "family": "hiring", "attribute": "jobs.postings observed assessment 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
early_signal.assessment {"rule": "operational-early-signal-v2", "missing": ["a financing round is held — assessed on the funding-verified path (buyer_fit), not as an operational signal", "fewer than two operational signal fa observed assessment 2026-11-06 normalized 0.90
early_signal.status held observed assessment 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
early_signal.status insufficient observed assessment 2026-11-06 normalized 0.90
funding.round.amount_usd 150000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
funding.round.announced_on 2026-10-29 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/29/serval-raises-150m-at-3b-valuation-to-bring-its-automation-agents-beyond-it/ observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
funding.round.stage unknown observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
gate.accumulation {"outcome": "document_created", "obs_count": 14, "source_id": "01M6REKG9NXW8X034QGRHNF0P3", "trigger_path": "accumulation_gate", "collector_count": 3, "artifact_collector": "website_collector"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 normalized 0.60
jobs.board_url https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/serval observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.engineering 23 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.total 63 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 normalized 0.85
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd 150000000 derived calc 2026-10-29 derived 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 0.7174 derived calc 2026-10-29 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 0.7374 derived calc 2026-10-29 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 0.7389 derived calc 2026-10-29 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.5346 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.5358 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.5731 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.5737 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.5862 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.6022 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.6257 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.7213 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.7609 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.7645 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.7885 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.7892 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.8347 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.8838 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.8885 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.8891 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 8.9118 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 9.0087 derived calc 2026-11-07 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 9.1053 derived calc 2026-11-07 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 9.1447 derived calc 2026-11-07 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 9.1978 derived calc 2026-11-07 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 9.2947 derived calc 2026-11-07 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 9.3657 derived calc 2026-11-07 derived 0.90
platform.visibility published observed inclusion 2026-11-06 normalized 1.00
score.venture_signal 68.1 derived calc 2026-10-29 superseded 0.60
score.venture_signal 67.4 derived calc 2026-11-06 superseded 0.60
score.venture_signal 66.2 derived calc 2026-11-06 derived 0.63
sector enterprise derived calc 2026-11-06 normalized 0.65
source.document.reference {"kind": "document", "title": "serval: AI-Native Enterprise Service Management and ITSM", "source_id": "01M6REKG9NXW8X034QGRHNF0P3", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:54113addf5c9fbc656933a121045b4e3e83 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 normalized 0.95
website_url https://www.serval.com observed enrichment 2026-10-29 normalized 0.75
website_url https://www.serval.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.95
website_url https://www.serval.com observed identity 2026-11-06 normalized 0.85
website.homepage.has_pricing_link true observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.80