Emir Avci

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About

I am a co-founder of Momenta. I work across AI security, deepfake detection, agentic systems and production AI for regulated industries.

At Momenta, we have built production voice and video deepfake detection models, alongside OSINT-driven agents for hyper-realistic AI social-engineering simulations. Our voice models have been evaluated across 2.34M+ samples and 14 benchmarks, reaching 0.89% pooled error. Momenta is incubated by SEI Foundation and CSL (Lightspeed and Polychain Capital).

Previously, I led product and developer experience at an AI lab in Singapore building self-improving agent frameworks, helped build institutional digital-asset custody infrastructure at Systemic Trust, and worked on developer products and ecosystem growth at Ripple. I studied computer science at the University of Calgary.

Growing up, I played competitive basketball for 8 years and won a FIRST Robotics competition at 14, then moved to Canada at 15 on a scholarship. Since then, I have gone on to win over $100K in prizes at global competitions.

Experience

• Co-Founder, Momenta (June 2025 - present)
  Building the OS Stack for Enterprise AI Security: #1 deepfake detection on Hugging Face (0.89% pooled error) and OSINT agents that simulate AI social-engineering attacks.
• AI Product & DevRel Lead, Eigenform AI (Feb 2025 - Jun 2025)
  Led product and DevEx at a Singapore-based AI lab building a research-backed, self-improving agent framework.
• Founding Product Engineer, Systemic Trust (Apr 2024 - Feb 2025)
  Worked alongside former Binance Canada executives as an early product and engineering hire, owning 0-1 institutional digital asset custody across crypto, banking, reporting and compliance.
• Developer Advocate, Ripple (May 2023 - Oct 2023)
  Built open-source tools and demo apps for developers building on XRP Ledger ecosystem, and ran hackathons, workshops and evaluated funding programs.
• Growth, MEXC (Sep 2022 - May 2023)
  Built strategic partnerships generating $150M+ in monthly futures trading volume.
• Co-Founder & President, UCalgary Blockchain Society (Apr 2022 - May 2025)
  Built the biggest student-run emerging tech organization in Western Canada, grew it to 1000+ members and partnered with Binance, Dfinity, Tetra Trust, NEAR, SUI and Uniswap.

Interests

• AI agents
• Voice and video AI
• AI evaluation and safety
• Fintech, digital assets and agentic payments
• Building reliable AI products for real-world use