# Meridian Labs Inc.

Illustrative dossier published by OpenDossier (a Magellan Global brand). The company is fictional; the structure, identifiers and source types are those used for real dossiers. As of 2026-10-20.

- Jurisdiction: United States (coverage phase 1)
- Legal form: Delaware C corporation; foreign-qualified in California
- Sector: AI software, enterprise document automation
- Delaware file no.: 7xxxxxx
- CIK: 0001234567
- EIN: on file, private
- LEI: none

## Summary

A Delaware corporation founded in 2022 with its principal office in San Francisco, 38 employees across the United States, Taiwan and Singapore, two priced financing rounds disclosed through Form D filings, no litigation found in federal or California state court indexes, three granted US patents, and a security posture evidenced by a current SOC 2 Type II report supplied by the company under NDA.

## Indicators

- Completeness: 78%
- Freshness: 12 days
- Open questions: 3
- Human review: 21 Oct 2026

## Identity and official records (coverage: full)

- Incorporated in Delaware on 9 February 2022 as a general corporation; status Good Standing [Verified]
  - Source: Delaware Division of Corporations, entity search; location: Entity details page; document date: 2026-10-19; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Name and file number match the Form D filer; contradictions: None found; note: Good-standing certificate not purchased; status read from the public search.
- Foreign qualification in California filed 3 May 2022; Statement of Information current [Verified]
  - Source: California Secretary of State, bizfile; location: Entity no. and SI filing; document date: 2026-03-11; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Entity number cross-referenced to Delaware file number via SI; contradictions: None found
- Principal office: 2 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco (per Statement of Information) [Verified]
  - Source: California Secretary of State; location: Statement of Information, page 1; document date: 2026-03-11; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Same entity; contradictions: None found; note: Registered agent address differs (Wilmington); both recorded.

## Ownership and control (coverage: partial)

- No public beneficial-ownership register applies; FinCEN BOI reporting is not required of domestic companies after the 2025 interim final rule [Verified]
  - Source: FinCEN, beneficial ownership information reporting; location: Interim final rule, March 2025; document date: 2025-03-26; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Rule-level fact, not entity-specific; contradictions: None found; note: Ownership is therefore evidenced from filings and company-supplied documents only.
- Form D (October 2025) lists three executive officers and two directors; no 10% owners are named because Form D does not require them [Verified]
  - Source: SEC EDGAR, Form D; location: Items 3 and 4; document date: 2025-10-14; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: CIK matches the Delaware name; contradictions: None found
- Company-supplied capitalisation summary (Trust Workspace): founders 58%, Series A investors 27%, employee pool 15%, fully diluted [Company-stated]
  - Source: Company upload, Trust Workspace; location: Cap table summary v3, signed by CFO; document date: 2026-09-30; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Uploaded under the company's claimed profile; contradictions: Consistent with Form D related persons; note: Company-stated, not independently verified; the underlying cap table is in the private data room for authorised viewers.

## People (coverage: full)

- Chief executive: Lin Mei-Chen (林美辰), listed as executive officer on Form D and as CEO on the Statement of Information [Verified]
  - Source: SEC EDGAR Form D; California SI; location: Item 3; SI officer list; document date: 2025-10-14; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Romanised and Chinese forms matched through the company's own filings and TIPO records of the Taiwan subsidiary; contradictions: None found
- Two directors; one is a partner of the Series A lead investor [Verified]
  - Source: SEC EDGAR Form D; location: Item 3, related persons; document date: 2025-10-14; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Director name matched to the investor's Form ADV brochure; contradictions: None found; note: Investor relationship disclosed by the company; no conflict for this dossier.

## Financial and capital (coverage: partial)

- Series A: Form D filed 14 October 2025 reports total offering amount US$18,000,000 and total amount sold US$18,000,000 [Verified]
  - Source: SEC EDGAR, Form D; location: Item 13; document date: 2025-10-14; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: CIK match; contradictions: None found; note: Amount sold is as at the filing date; Form D does not state a valuation.
- Seed: Form D filed 2 March 2023 reports offering amount US$4,000,000, amount sold US$3,250,000 [Verified]
  - Source: SEC EDGAR, Form D; location: Item 13; document date: 2023-03-02; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: CIK match; contradictions: None found; note: Remaining US$750,000 may have been sold later without an amendment; treated as unknown.
- No audited financial statements are public; the company supplied FY2025 reviewed statements to the private data room [Company-stated]
  - Source: Company upload, Trust Workspace; location: Reviewed statements, 2025; document date: 2026-04-30; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Company upload; contradictions: None found; note: Visible to authorised viewers only; summary figures are not reproduced in the public dossier.
- Open question: whether the Taiwan subsidiary holds the engineering IP or licenses it from the parent [Open question]
  - Source: Analyst note; location: Open questions list; document date: 2026-10-20; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Both entities identified; contradictions: None found; note: Company asked to supply the intercompany licence; pending.

## Legal and regulatory (coverage: full)

- No federal civil cases found with the company as a party [Verified]
  - Source: PACER via CourtListener/RECAP; location: Party search, exact and fuzzy name; document date: 2026-10-19; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Name, state and officer names used to exclude two same-name entities in Texas and Florida; contradictions: None found; note: Absence of a record is reported as a search result with its date and scope, not as 'no risk'.
- No San Francisco or Santa Clara Superior Court cases found [Verified]
  - Source: County court online indexes; location: Civil case search; document date: 2026-10-19; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Name search; contradictions: None found; note: State index coverage varies by county; other counties not searched.
- No SEC enforcement actions, OFAC, EU, UK or UN sanctions matches [Verified]
  - Source: SEC litigation releases; OFAC SDN and consolidated lists; EU, UK OFSI, UN lists; location: List screening, fuzzy threshold 85%; document date: 2026-10-20; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Two false positives on a similar name cleared by jurisdiction; contradictions: None found

## Intellectual property (coverage: full)

- Three granted US patents and two pending applications assigned to the company (document extraction and layout analysis) [Verified]
  - Source: USPTO Patent Center; assignment database; location: Assignee search; document date: 2026-10-18; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Assignee name and address match; contradictions: None found; note: Assignment from the two founders recorded in 2022; chain of title complete.
- US trademark MERIDIAN LABS registered in classes 9 and 42; Taiwan application pending [Verified]
  - Source: USPTO TSDR; TIPO; location: Registration record; application status; document date: 2026-10-18; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Owner name matches; contradictions: None found

## Web and documents (coverage: full)

- Website states customers in financial services and logistics; two named customers confirmed by those customers' own press releases [Verified]
  - Source: Company website; customer press releases; location: Customers page; press pages; document date: 2026-09-02; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Company-stated claim with external corroboration for two of five; contradictions: None found; note: Three named customers not independently corroborated; recorded as company-stated.
- SOC 2 Type II report (period ending 30 June 2026) issued by a licensed CPA firm, supplied under NDA [Licensed / supplied]
  - Source: Company upload, Trust Workspace; location: Report cover and opinion page; document date: 2026-08-15; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Company upload; auditor name verified against the firm's licence; contradictions: None found; note: Report contents restricted; the opinion type and period are recorded.

## Client and employee feedback (coverage: n=7)

- Seven verified client interviews (2025–2026): delivery quality rated high by six; one reports a delayed integration resolved within the contract [Licensed / supplied]
  - Source: OpenDossier verified interviews; location: Interview records, relationship verified by contract or invoice; document date: 2026-07-30; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Relationship verified; content is the client's opinion; contradictions: None found; note: Sample of seven; no ranking is produced below n=10.
- Employee feedback: below the display threshold (n=4) [Partial]
  - Source: OpenDossier verified questionnaire; location: Aggregate withheld; document date: 2026-10-20; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Relationship verified by employment record; contradictions: None found; note: Not shown until n≥5 to protect anonymity in a small team.

## Private data room (coverage: locked)

- Cap table, reviewed financial statements, SOC 2 report, security questionnaire (CAIQ) answers [Private]
  - Source: Company upload; location: Access by company grant only; document date: 2026-09-30; retrieved: 2026-10-20; entity match: Company upload; contradictions: None found; note: Not used in the public dossier; visible to viewers the company authorises.

## Open questions

- Intercompany IP licence between the Delaware parent and the Taiwan subsidiary
- Whether the remaining US$750,000 of the 2023 seed offering was sold
- Three customer references not independently corroborated

## Timeline

- 2022-02-09: Incorporated in Delaware
- 2022-05-03: Qualified in California
- 2023-03-02: Form D, seed
- 2024-11-05: First US patent granted
- 2025-10-14: Form D, Series A, US$18.0m sold
- 2026-08-15: SOC 2 Type II report, period to 30 June 2026
- 2026-10-21: Dossier analyst review

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