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YC S26 Daily Digest

Thu, August 13, 2026

4 new startups from YC S26 launched in the last 24 hours (215 total). 4 weeks until demo day (Sep 10).

DeepReach Inc.

Real-world data network for robots & world models

DeepReach builds a real-world data network for training robots and world models. They design wearable stereo capture devices and place them with local data partners who run collection as their own business across warehouses, workshops, farms, and repair shops. Chris was a founding ML engineer at Aven and worked on core ML systems at Meta with a PhD in computer vision. They solve the diversity problem in robot training data — instead of thousands of hours in one lab, they collect hours across thousands of real environments, which is what makes policies generalize. They have 475 devices across 7 countries, 100+ active data partners, and have collected nearly 150,000 clips in three months.

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Founders (1):

Chris Liu

Co-founder at DeepReach Inc. Founding MLE & tech lead of Aven scaling to #1 in DM volume in the US. Research Scientist at Meta working on core ML systems. PhD in computer vision from USC. B.S. from Peking University.

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Magma

Monetize your agent's traces.

Magma helps companies monetize their AI agents' trace data. They operate a marketplace where businesses can sell trace data generated by their agents to buyers who need it. Founded by Ramtin Shahzanian, they solve the problem of trace data sitting unused by creating a way for companies to turn it into a revenue stream.

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Founders (1):

Ramtin Shahzanian

failing my way through.

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TovenAI

AI agents for compliance at institutional trading firms

TovenAI builds AI agents that handle manual, data-intensive compliance work at institutional trading firms. They have six agents currently live, with prebuilt connectors to more than 30 systems including Bloomberg, Cloud9, and NICE Actimize. Batu previously worked as a quantitative research engineer at Citadel and as a senior software engineer at Salesforce, while Sam worked on ML at Meta. Both studied computer science at Stanford. Their agents support multiple compliance workflows at a top-10 institutional brokerage, and firms can onboard using their own data in under a week.

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Founders (2):

Batu Balci

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

Sam Turchetta

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

Pennant

The Corporate Governance OS for Public Markets

Pennant builds AI-native proxy voting and governance intelligence for institutional investors, public companies, and their advisors. Founded by Ryan and Tomas, who met at Cornell and worked together at BlackRock, they combine deep industry experience with technical expertise—Ryan spent 6+ years voting proxies at 3,000+ company meetings and advising Fortune 100 boards at PJT, while Tomas previously founded Mindware, building infrastructure for AI agents. They solve the brutally manual work of reviewing thousands of pages of SEC filings and engagement notes by reasoning through ballot items and flagging nuanced decisions. They're live with paying enterprise customers including one of the largest US public pension plans and a Top AmLaw 100 firm.

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Founders (2):

Ryan Nowicki Stewart

Co-Founder at Pennant. 10+ years asset management, proxy voting & shareholder activism industry experience across PJT, State Street and BlackRock. Palantir Startup Fellowship Cohort 002. Cornell U. Economic Club of NY. Hoover Institution.

Tomas Taylor

Co-Founder at Pennant. Previously PM at BlackRock. Founded Mindware, agent tooling infrastructure. Also co-founded ClawCon, the fastest-growing community for Personal AI.

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