# TovenAI

[TovenAI on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/tovenai)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

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

## About

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## YC company profile

AI agents for compliance at institutional trading firms

TovenAI builds a platform of AI agents that handle manual, data-intensive work for compliance teams at institutional trading firms, with six agents currently live. Our customers range from specialist firms to large global institutions, with our agents supporting multiple compliance workflows at a top-10 institutional brokerage.

With prebuilt connectors to more than 30 systems—including Bloomberg, Cloud9, and NICE Actimize—firms can onboard to our platform and evaluate results using their own data in less than a week.

- **YC batch:** Summer 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 2
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** Fintech
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Fintech, Compliance, Regtech, AI
- **YC partner:** Brad Flora

## Founders

### Batu Balci — Founder/CEO

Founder at TovenAI. Previously Quantitative Research Engineer at Citadel's Global Quantitative Strategies group. Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce. Stanford CS.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/batuhan-balci-7a3589114/) · [X](https://x.com/batubbalci)

### Sam Turchetta — Founder/CTO

Cofounder at TovenAI. Previously worked on ML at Meta. Stanford Men’s Varsity Tennis and CS ’21.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-turchetta-b14311166/)

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

## Current staff

- [Batu Balci](https://hacklab.so/batu-balci) — Founder/CEO (Present)
- [Sam Turchetta](https://hacklab.so/sam-turchetta) — Founder/CTO (Present)