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Arden

AI-native internal audit firm

San Francisco

2 employees

Pre-seed · $3.7M

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About Arden

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.

Company details

Team Size2

LocationSan Francisco

Funding

Total raised

$3.7M

StandoutYBacked by Y Combinator · P26

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Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Aryaman Khanna

Previously worked on AI at Databricks; studied CS & Data Science at UC Berkeley. Co-authored NeurIPS 2025 research on privacy-preserving ML for autonomous systems.

David Lomelin

Co-Founder & CTO @ Arden. Previously AI @ MIT and co-founder of Blueprint. Conducted research at MIT CSAIL and DUSP on LLM post-training and applied AI systems.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.