We started Obin because we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how financial institutions operate. As the marginal cost of executing complex workflows collapses, the constraint is no longer people and hours — it is judgment, governance, and speed.
For decades, capacity limits have forced institutions to leave value on the table. Not because these opportunities weren’t profitable, but because there wasn’t enough bandwidth to execute.
AI changes that equation, but only if it can handle the edge cases where real financial work lives. In finance, 80% accuracy is not enough. The exceptions, the covenant nuances, the disputed clauses — that is where risk resides.
Obin was built to break through this wall.
We build AI agents designed for regulated finance: decomposing complex workflows into machine-verifiable steps, learning edge cases systematically through domain expertise, and operating within a governance framework that ensures every output is traceable, auditable, and reversible.
Our platform compounds with every deployment. When one institution solves a complex workflow, the architecture improves for all. Firms gain the benefits of industry-wide learning while preserving their proprietary judgment, underwriting criteria, and risk appetite.
FOUNDERS
Lak Lakshmanan
CTO, Co-founder
Former SilverLake, Google AI executive. Author of multiple bestselling books on AI.
Apoorv Saxena
CEO, Co-founder
Former SilverLake, JP Morgan, Google AI executive.
ADVISORS
Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Professor, Stanford University
TIME Magazine’s 2025 Person of the Year. “Godmother of AI.” Creator of ImageNet and co-founder of World Labs.
Łukasz Kaiser
Leading Research Scientist, OpenAI
Co-author of “Attention Is All You Need,” the paper that introduced the Transformer architecture behind modern LLMs.
Backed by Industry Leaders from
KKR
Motive
Elliott
JPMorgan