# Arden

[Arden on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/arden)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://ardentech.ai/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/arden)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ardeninc)

## About

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## YC company profile

AI-native internal audit firm

Arden is the AI-native platform for internal audit and SOX teams.

We build AI agents that automatically pull evidence from your stack, test controls end-to-end, and produce audit-ready workpapers in minutes instead of weeks.

Internal audit is a massive but underserved market. Every public company in the US is required to do SOX testing, yet teams still run it through spreadsheets and screenshots. Arden is the engine that does this work.

- **YC batch:** Spring 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 2
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** B2B
- **Stage:** Early
- **YC partner:** David Lieb

## Founders

### Aryaman Khanna — Founder/CEO

Co-Founder & CEO @ Arden. Previously worked on AI @ Databricks and studied CS & Data Science @ UC Berkeley. Co-authored NeurIPS 2025 research on privacy-preserving ML for autonomous systems.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryaman-khanna-210a9121b/) · [X](https://x.com/aryamank24)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/arden) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Aryaman Khanna](https://hacklab.so/aryaman-khanna) — Founder/CEO (Present)
- [David Lomelin](https://hacklab.so/david-lomelin) — CTO (Present)