The policy was updated somewhere. The gap was identified in a spreadsheet. The email went to the wrong person. Nobody's fault — the process was just held together with calendar reminders.
Before founding Pensvyne, Henrik Larsson spent several years in regulatory operations at a mid-size registered investment adviser in New York. His role sat at the intersection of compliance technology and examination readiness — which meant he had a front-row view every time the process failed. A final rule would publish. The compliance team would triage it, flag it in a spreadsheet, maybe send an email. Three months later, during an SEC examination, an examiner would surface a supervisory procedure that hadn't been updated to reflect the change. The policy gap was real. The obligation had been public for months. Nobody's fault — the process simply had no mechanism for connecting regulatory text to the specific internal document it affected, then routing that connection to the right person with a deadline.
The available tools were either full GRC platforms — six-figure annual contracts, six-month implementations, built for the second line of defense at a large bank — or manual workflows held together by email threads and shared drives. There was nothing in the middle that did the actual regulatory-to-policy mapping work for a 20-person compliance team managing 150 policies across two jurisdictions.
Pensvyne is that gap closed. We are not a GRC platform replacement. We do one thing: take a regulatory change and tell you exactly which of your internal policies it touches, draft the gap assessment, and route it to the right owner — before any examiner asks.
Founded 2023 · New York, NY · Angel-backed since late 2025
CEO & Co-Founder
Former regulatory operations at a registered investment adviser in New York. Managed the compliance technology function through three SEC examinations, including two thematic reviews. Built Pensvyne in 2023 to solve the regulatory-to-policy mapping problem he couldn't fix with existing tools.
CTO & Co-Founder
Previously built document intelligence infrastructure at a legal technology company, focused on obligation extraction from regulatory and contractual text. Designed Pensvyne's concept-level mapping engine — the component that links regulatory terminology to your policy library without relying on keyword overlap.
Head of Regulatory Intelligence
Ten years as a compliance examiner and regulatory attorney, including time reviewing BSA/AML programs and supervisory procedures at the examiner level. At Pensvyne, Rachel architects the regulatory source taxonomy and runs quality validation on concept-level mappings — ensuring the system flags what an examiner would actually flag.
Founded in New York in 2023. Angel-backed since late 2025. We are a small, focused team — three people who came from compliance operations, document intelligence, and regulatory examination. No enterprise sales layer. No account management overhead. We work directly with the compliance officers who have the problem.
2023
Founded in New York; began building the regulatory ingestion and concept-mapping engine
2024
First live customers: two community banks and a registered investment adviser; completed first full OCC exam cycle with a customer on platform
2025
Angel funding round closed; expanded to insurance and multi-state regulatory coverage