$5.6M raised · 12 institutions · 4 countries
Here's what it means and where we go next.
Singapore, 15 June 2026
We've closed a US$5.6 million Pre-Series A round, led by Tin Men Capital, with co-lead SBI Ven Capital and participation from SEEDS Capital, NTUitive, SUTD Venture Fund, and Tenity.
This is a moment we are genuinely proud of, not because of the number, but because of what it represents. Every institution that trusted us with a live process, every engineer who stayed late to make an integration work, every compliance team that signed off on something they'd never seen before: this round is their validation too.
And with that, comes weight. The institutions we serve don't deal in approximations and neither can we. This trust and the capital is a mandate to go deeper into the systems that matter, to build governance that holds under regulatory scrutiny, and to earn the trust of every institution that hasn't yet taken the leap.
We're expanding our engineering team, strengthening our governance and audit capabilities for new regulatory environments, and building out Autothought Studio - a suite of tools that let financial institutions and our consulting partners build, manage, and own their AI operations internally.
In under two years, 12 financial institutions across four countries have collectively saved more than US$10 million using Autothought. These weren't edge-of-business deployments. They're live in underwriting, claims processing, onboarding, and credit decisioning. All the functions where a wrong decision has reputation risk and regulatory consequences.
Most AI in financial services today lives at the periphery, in marketing, website chatbots, and CS responses. These are important use cases but they hardly deliver the promised ROI that we expect from AI. We believe the institutions that wire AI into their core processes will pull ahead in ways that are difficult to reverse. We built Autothought so that every AI-assisted decision can be traced, audited, and defended to any regulator in the world: MAS, RBI, HKMA, and beyond.
Autothought is an agent orchestration framework. It connects directly to a bank or insurer's core systems, matches each task to the right model, whether that's our own purpose-built SLMs, frontier models, or open-source, and generates a complete audit trail for every decision. Uncertain outputs are flagged for human review. Nothing is a black box. We also embed engineers directly inside client organisations. This is not a SaaS deployment. It is a production integration.
"While the world debates the business value of AI, Pints has been quietly deploying auditable AI in financial institutions and delivering millions in savings for clients."
- Murli Ravi, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Tin Men Capital
"Pints AI understands the operating environment of regulated financial institutions in a way that is rare at this stage. We invested because the problem is real, the traction is real, and the team has built something institutions can trust with live operations."
- Eiichiro So, CEO, SBI Ven Capital
We are expanding across APAC and the Middle East. If you are a financial institution looking to move AI from pilot to production, in a way your compliance team, your regulators, and your board can stand behind, we should talk.