What Videre does

Videre Est Credere is a UK-registered charity (No. 1130375) and Dutch public benefit organisation (CCI 83648704) founded in 2008/2009, headquartered in London, operating with 11-50 employees. The organization's core offering is a community-directed evidence gathering and verification methodology that equips persecuted and marginalised communities to document human rights abuses and environmental crimes in febrile security environments — contexts where mass killings, deforestation, and illegal mining occur. Field teams and partners work alongside affected communities to lead investigations, verify evidence, and decide whether results are deployed in legal action, advocacy, or media exposés, or used for transitional justice and peacebuilding planning. The methodology is positioned as an explicit alternative to remote, extractive human rights work, and as a counterweight to AI-driven disinformation that obscures ground truth.

The organization is funded through charitable donations and grants (donations processed via CAF Online), and it maintains an ethical funding policy to govern donor selection. Its only disclosed institutional grant is $1,250,000 from the Skoll Foundation in April 2016. Its primary "customers" in the evidence-consumer sense are international institutions (a United Nations Mission provided a public testimonial), while the people served by its methodology are global impacted communities. Videre does not sell products or services and does not operate commercial pricing or distribution channels; its distribution is direct field engagement with community partners. Leadership comprises founder Oren Yakobovich and CEO Jacqueline Geis. The organization maintains a low public profile, consistent with the security requirements of its operating environments.

Name

Videre

Legal name

Videre Est Credere

Website

https://videreonline.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Videre is a UK-registered nonprofit that equips persecuted and marginalised communities to document, verify, and expose human rights abuses and environmental crimes in dangerous security environments. Its community-directed methodology produces evidence used for legal action, advocacy, and media exposés.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Human Rights Documentation Services

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Human Rights Monitoring, Documentation & Advocacy (BPADAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB), Safeguarding, Accountability & Compliance (ESG, Gender/GBV, Do No Harm) (BPADAEAM), Rule of Law, Justice & Corrections Support in Conflict Settings (BPADAFAI)

Keywords

• Human rights documentation
• Community-led evidence gathering
• Environmental crime investigation
• Transitional justice support
• Persecuted communities advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Charitable Donations and Grants: Videre operates as a registered charity (No. 1130375 in UK, CCI number 83648704 in Netherlands) funded through donations. The organization has an ethical funding policy and accepts donations through CAF Online. As a nonprofit, revenue comes from charitable contributions rather than product or service sales.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Videre equips persecuted and marginalized communities with a hands-on methodology to document, verify, and expose human rights abuses and environmental crimes in febrile security environments. The organization pairs affected communities with field teams and partners who provide training, secure documentation support, and verification, then assists communities in using the resulting evidence for legal action, advocacy, media exposés, transitional justice, and peacebuilding. It does not sell a commercial product; its offering is the methodology itself plus the supporting field engagement.

Product overview

Videre offers a single, unified methodology focused on human rights evidence gathering and verification. The organization works directly with persecuted and marginalized communities to help them document, verify, and expose abuses they face. The core offering is a hands-on evidence gathering and analysis approach that enables communities to make decisions about legal cases, advocacy, media exposés, and transitional justice planning. There are no distinct named product modules or separate product lines described.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Videre Evidence Gathering and Verification Methodology

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• WITNESS: WITNESS is a global NGO that partners with communities to use video and technology for human rights documentation, closely paralleling Videre's community-led evidence methodology. Both organizations equip frontline actors with tools and training to capture and verify abuses in their own contexts.
• Bellingcat: Bellingcat is an open-source investigations outlet that produces verified evidence on human rights abuses, conflict, and environmental crime using remote and field techniques. While more open-source/internet based, it operates in the same 'verified evidence for accountability' category as Videre and competes for similar institutional funder dollars.
• Mnemonic: Mnemonic is a Berlin-based nonprofit that helps human rights defenders archive, verify, and use digital evidence (video, social media) to support justice and accountability. It mirrors Videre's focus on evidence preservation and analysis in high-risk contexts.
• Article 19: Article 19 is an international freedom of expression organization that works with activists and journalists to document rights violations and pursue advocacy and legal remedies — sharing Videre's combination of community partnership, documentation, and legal-action pathways.
• Global Witness: Global Witness investigates and campaigns against environmental and human rights abuses linked to natural resource extraction, corruption, and conflict. It directly overlaps with Videre's environmental crime (deforestation, illegal mining) and human rights mandate.
• Tactical Tech: Tactical Tech is an international NGO that works with civil society and activists on the use of technology for advocacy, documentation, and security — sharing Videre's emphasis on equipping communities with methods to document their own realities safely.

Emerging players

• Syrian Archive: Syrian Archive (part of the Mnemonic ecosystem) collects, verifies, and preserves open-source evidence of human rights violations in Syria for use in justice and accountability processes. It operates in the same evidence-for-accountability niche as Videre but at smaller scale and narrower geography.
• Access Now: Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk, with rapid-response support for civil society and activists in dangerous contexts. It is an emerging player with partial overlap to Videre's mission of protecting and empowering at-risk documenters and communities.

Broad incumbents

• Amnesty International: Amnesty International is a large, established human rights organization that conducts investigations and campaigns globally on rights abuses. It overlaps with Videre's mission but is centralized, top-down, and significantly larger, operating as a broad incumbent in the same category.
• Human Rights Watch: Human Rights Watch is a major international human rights organization that investigates and reports on abuses worldwide. It works on overlapping subject matter but uses traditional remote research rather than Videre's community-led methodology, making it a broad incumbent rather than direct peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/_videre

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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