Batu Balci
Founder/CEOFounder at TovenAI. Previously Quantitative Research Engineer at Citadel's Global Quantitative Strategies group. Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce. Stanford CS.
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
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TovenAI
Overview
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.
Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Founders & team
Sam Turchetta
Founder/CTOCofounder at TovenAI. Previously worked on ML at Meta. Stanford Men’s Varsity Tennis and CS ’21.
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15
Founded 2026 · Source
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Summer 2026Summer 2026
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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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- Dated milestonesDated source activity: 2026 Q3 (quarter only)
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