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RNS Number : 0837A  Trustpilot Group PLC  11 March 2025

PRESS RELEASE

 

Trustpilot announces TrustLayer™ at HumanX to redefine trust in the AI era

●    Trustpilot launches TrustLayer™, a new way for businesses to apply
real customer feedback to decisions in search, commerce, procurement, risk,
marketing, and investing.

●    Global investors Advent and Felix Capital sign on as flagship
Private Equity and Venture Capital partners, tapping into Trustpilot's 300M+
reviews for better deal-making.

LAS VEGAS, NV - March 10, 2025

In an AI-powered world, trust is more critical than ever. Consumers,
businesses, and investors need reliable trust signals to make informed
decisions-whether choosing what to buy, evaluating investments, or choosing
suppliers.

Today, at HumanX, the world's leading forum for AI, business, and society,
Trustpilot introduced TrustLayer™-a trust intelligence platform designed to
embed real consumer sentiment into AI-driven decision-making at scale.

TrustLayer™ provides a scalable solution by integrating independent,
real-time consumer sentiment into AI-powered decision-making-embedding trust
into digital interactions, commerce, procurement, risk assessment, and
investment strategy.

Trustpilot is uniquely positioned to lead in this space. With 300M+ reviews,
190K+ new reviews daily, 64M+ monthly active users, and 140B+ annual TrustBox
impressions, it is the largest independent customer feedback platform in the
world.

Trustpilot is pleased to announce Advent and Felix Capital as TrustLayer™'s
flagship Private Equity and Venture Capital partners. These firms are
leveraging Trustpilot's data to enhance deal sourcing, due diligence,
investment strategy, and portfolio management, setting a new standard for
trust-driven investment decisions.

Embedding trust into AI-powered business decisions

TrustLayer™ enables companies to:

✔ Amplify real customer voices - Ensuring business decisions are shaped by
authentic consumer sentiment.

✔ Embed trust signals - Powering search, commerce, procurement, and
investment workflows.

✔ Support risk, fraud detection, and compliance - Providing real-time
insights into brand integrity, supplier reliability, and financial risk.

How TrustLayer™ Powers Decision-Making

TrustLayer™ is designed to be embedded into key business workflows across
multiple industries, including:

●    AI-driven search, social media & commerce platforms - Ensuring
trust signals are embedded into search, recommendations, and e-commerce
transactions.

●    Enterprise procurement & supply chain - Powering supplier
validation and fraud detection to de-risk business decisions.

●    Financial services & risk modeling - Enhancing KYC, merchant
vetting, and fraud prevention for banks, insurers, and payment providers.

●    Investment & advisory firms - Powering deal sourcing, due
diligence, value creation strategies, and portfolio management

●    Social listening & marketing platforms - Helping brands track,
analyze, and act on real consumer sentiment.

●    CRM & customer engagement - Embedding trust insights into
loyalty programs, reputation management, and customer relationship tools.

TrustLayer™ delivers these insights via:

✔ APIs - Real-time trust signals integrated directly into AI and business
platforms.

✔ A SaaS analytics dashboard - Providing businesses with trust intelligence
and benchmarking.

✔ Downloadable trust reports - Allowing companies to track brand perception
over time.

What's Next?

TrustLayer™ will officially launch in Q3 2025, with APIs, a SaaS analytics
dashboard, downloadable reports and integrations across CRM, social listening,
and social media platforms. Businesses interested in early access and
partnership opportunities can visit
https://business.trustpilot.com/datasolutions
(https://business.trustpilot.com/datasolutions) for more details.

Adrian Blair, CEO, Trustpilot, said:

"We believe that trust in the age of AI will be achieved by technology
amplifying real human experiences. TrustLayer™ is our next step in ensuring
that businesses can demonstrate real, verifiable trust at scale. By embedding
consumer sentiment into decision-making, we're creating a new standard for
transparency in AI-powered commerce, risk, and investment."

Carrie Ryan, Chief Strategy Officer, Trustpilot, added:

"AI is transforming how we search, shop, and invest-but without trust, its
potential is limited. TrustLayer™ ensures trust isn't an afterthought; it's
built into the foundation of AI-powered decisions, making them more
transparent, accountable, and grounded in real experiences."

Jesse Thomas, Head of Data Science, Advent, said:

"We're delighted to be collaborating with Trustpilot in shaping their
TrustLayer™ platform. Trustpilot's independent data is a powerful source of
real, authentic customer voices, and we believe TrustLayer™ will allow us to
leverage this data to embed deeper insights throughout our deal life-cycle and
we are excited about the possibilities ahead."

Angela Chou, Investor, Felix Capital, commented:

"Felix Capital is delighted to be a flagship partner for TrustLayer™. At
Felix we have a vision to invest in brands that shape our culture and move the
world forward. In doing so, a core part of our diligence is assessing a
brand's "customer love," through proprietary scorecards that combine art and
science. Trustpilot has been an important diligence tool for our methods, as
it provides an unbiased reflection of customer sentiment, a crucial factor of
trust online. We're excited for the launch of TrustLayer™ and its ability to
help us extract more accurate and reliable insights. This ultimately enables
us to fulfill our mission of backing the best and most creative entrepreneurs,
who realise that to build successful and sustainable businesses, it is the
most important to start with the consumer."

 

 

About Trustpilot

 

Trustpilot began in 2007 with a simple yet powerful idea that is more relevant
today than ever - to be the universal symbol of trust, bringing consumers and
businesses together through reviews. Trustpilot is open, independent, and
impartial - we help consumers make the right choices and businesses to build
trust, grow and improve.

 

Today, we have more than 300 million reviews and 64 million monthly active
users across the globe, with 140 billion annual Trustbox impressions, and the
numbers keep growing. We have nearly 1,000 employees and we're headquartered
in Copenhagen, with operations in Amsterdam, Denver, Edinburgh, Hamburg,
London, Melbourne, Milan and New York.

 

About Advent International

 

Advent is a leading global private equity investor committed to working in
partnership with management teams, entrepreneurs, and founders to help
transform businesses. With 16 offices across five continents, we oversee more
than USD $93.5 billion in assets under management* and have made more than 420
investments across 43 countries.

 

Since our founding in 1984, we have developed specialist market expertise
across our five core sectors: business & financial services, consumer,
healthcare, industrial, and technology. This approach is bolstered by our deep
sub-sector knowledge, which informs every aspect of our investment strategy,
from sourcing opportunities to working in partnership with management to
execute value creation plans. We bring hands-on operational expertise to
enhance and accelerate businesses.

 

As one of the largest privately-owned partnerships, our 650+ colleagues
leverage the full ecosystem of Advent's global resources, including our
Portfolio Support Group, insights provided by industry expert Operating
Partners and Operations Advisors, as well as bespoke tools to support and
guide our portfolio companies as they seek to achieve their strategic goals.

 

*Assets under management (AUM) as of September 30, 2024. AUM includes assets
attributable to Advent advisory clients as well as employee and third-party
co-investment vehicles.

About Felix Capital

Felix Capital is a London-based venture capital firm, operating at the
intersection of technology and creativity. The firm's mission is to be a
partner of choice for the best entrepreneurs - creative innovators empowering
new ways of living. Felix aims to help founders build brands and products that
shape our culture and move the world forward. Illustrative investments in
Europe and North America include: Moonbug, a media platform for kids
entertainment including 'Cocomelon' and 'Blippi'; TravelPerk, a corporate
travel platform leveraging AI; Mirakl, a SaaS platform for marketplaces;
HungryPanda, a food delivery business for the Chinese community and Mejuri, a
modern jewellery brand. www.felixcap.com (http://www.felixcap.com)

 

 

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