Full-stack AI financial audit platform for public companies
HQ: San Francisco, CA / London, UK | Founded: 2025 | Employees: 2 | Stage: Seed | Website: https://denki.ai
Denki is building the full-stack AI financial audit platform for public companies. The platform automates the manual, evidence-heavy processes of financial audits — including evidence review, documentation, control testing, and regulatory compliance. The goal is to make audits run more like code, replacing manual spreadsheet-based processes with software automation. Founded in 2025 by brothers Felipe Jin Li (24) and David Jin Li (20). Felipe researched Explainable AI during his PhD at UCL, worked at McKinsey, and led product + mobile engineering at a GE-funded startup. David built pipelines for unstructured financial data at MacroHive (trusted by all top 5 hedge funds), is a top 13 competitive programmer in the UK Informatics Olympiad, and studied Computing at Imperial College London. The brothers accepted a small angel check from a former staff research scientist at DeepMind to explore ideas before YC. YC Fall 2025 batch. Raised $500K from YC followed by $4.1M seed co-led by Base10 Partners and Shine Capital with Y Combinator, 20VC, and Hi2 Global. Two-person company based in San Francisco and London.
Denki has a remarkable founding team: two brothers aged 20 and 24, both with exceptional credentials (PhD in Explainable AI from UCL + McKinsey, Imperial CS + top 13 UK informatics olympiad). They're tackling the massive financial audit market which is still largely manual. The $4.1M seed from Base10 and Shine Capital alongside YC and 20VC is strong validation. Key risk: enterprise sales to audit firms and public companies have very long cycles, and the Big Four have strong incumbency advantages.
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