Itoflow raises $2.5M to build AI agents for investors

Itoflow raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by Balderton Capital, with angel backing from Barney Hussey-Yeo. The company will use the capital to expand engineering and quantitative research teams, accelerate product development and support commercial and regulatory work.

The startup was founded earlier this year by CEO Aditya Jha, who spent nine years as a quantitative researcher at JPMorgan, RBC and Tower Research Capital. Co‑founders include engineers who previously built large-scale infrastructure at Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Itoflow is developing AI agents that learn how each investment team conducts research, sets risk controls and reviews portfolios. Teams provide their processes, constraints and review criteria in plain English and the agents convert those instructions into governed workflows that can run continuously across global markets and asset classes. In pilot programs the agents perform quantitative research and backtesting, monitor portfolios on an ongoing basis and flag material changes with supporting evidence.

Customers control which automated actions are permitted and the thresholds that require human approval. Itoflow is running pilots with several hedge funds and family offices and is in discussions with exchanges, brokerages and financial-data providers.

Aditya Jha described the long-term goal as building agents that improve with extended use: over months and years they should learn which approaches remain effective, surface promising new signals and identify when an apparent edge has decayed.

The company is also focusing on governance and regulatory work to keep human oversight central while automating repetitive research and monitoring tasks.