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Pints AI

Category: AI in Fintech

Singapore-based enterprise AI company building production-ready, auditable AI agents for regulated financial institutions via its Autothought platform. Pints AI was founded in 2021. The company is led by Partha Rao. Based in Singapore. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $5.6M. Latest round: Pre-Series A. Key investors include Tin Men Capital, SBI Ven Capital, SEEDS Capital, NTUitive, SUTD Venture Fund, Tenity, Mount Row Partners.

Founded
2021
Headquarters
Singapore
Team size
11-50
Total funding
$5.6M

Value proposition

Pints AI enables regulated financial institutions to deploy AI agents into production with full audit trails, traceability, and compliance with MAS, RBI, HKMA, and other regulatory frameworks — solving the "POC graveyard" problem where most AI projects fail to move past trials due to lack of explainability.

Products and solutions

Autothought (AI agent deployment platform for regulated financial institutions), 1.5-Pints SLM (compact, domain-trained language model for insurance), SANN (Source Attribution Neural Network for audit trails), SentientRAG (fine-tuned SLMs for RAG with +20% factual accuracy), Pre-built agents for Insurance (Claims Summarisation, Underwriting Assessment, Policy Issuance), Asset Management (Portfolio Risk Monitoring, Investment Research), Knowledge Management (Report Generation, Branded Deck Generation), Backoffice (Sales Operations)

Unique value

Full-stack ownership (proprietary SLMs + Autothought platform + hands-on implementation) with compliance-first architecture; every AI decision is traceable to source data via SANN (Source Attribution Neural Network); uncertain outputs flagged for human review; on-prem or private cloud deployment with zero data leakage.

Target customer

Regulated financial institutions — banks, insurers, and asset management firms — in Asia Pacific and the Middle East

Industries served

Insurance, Asset Management, Banking, Financial Services, Legal, Backoffice Operations

Technology advantage

Proprietary 1.5-Pints SLM trained in 9 days on 57B curated tokens outperforming larger models (OpenELM, Phi-2); SANN for source-attributed outputs; SentientRAG for grounded AI answers; Autothought platform enabling 21-day deployment; full on-prem/private cloud deployment; open-sourced models (MIT license on HuggingFace/GitHub); research partnership with SUTD (Pints Labs)

How they differentiate

Unlike most AI companies that sell tools or consult, Pints AI delivers the complete solution — proprietary models + Autothought platform + hands-on implementation — tailored to regulated environments. Their compliance-first architecture with SANN ensures every AI decision is traceable and defensible to regulators. They deploy in 21 days vs. industry norm of months, and offer on-prem/private cloud deployment with zero data leakage.

Main competitors

Auquan, Rogo AI

Key partnerships

SUTD (Pints Labs research partnership), AI Singapore, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), NTUitive

Notable customers

12 institutions across 4 countries (Singapore, Hong Kong, India, US) — names not publicly disclosed

Major milestones

2021: Company founded, 2023-11: Won MAS Global Fintech Hackcelerator / AI in Finance Global Challenge at Singapore FinTech Festival, 2024-08: Released 1.5-Pints SLM (open-source), 2024-12: Launched Autothought platform, 2025-08: Named among key startups reshaping SE Asia's AI landscape (Tech in Asia), 2025-10: HP startup acceleration program, 2026-06: Raised $5.6M pre-Series A led by Tin Men Capital

Growth metrics

$13.2M in client savings in under 2 years; 8+ live production deployments; 12 institutions across 4 countries

Market positioning

Niche leader in auditable, compliance-first AI for regulated financial institutions in Asia Pacific; differentiated by full-stack ownership (models + platform + implementation) vs. pure tool vendors or consultancies; recognized by MAS, AI Singapore, SUTD, and NTU

Geographic focus

Asia Pacific (Singapore, Hong Kong, India) and Middle East; expanding to US

Patents and IP

1.5-Pints SLM open-sourced (MIT license) on HuggingFace and GitHub; arXiv technical report (arXiv:2408.03506); SANN (Source Attribution Neural Network) and SentientRAG are proprietary technologies

About Partha Rao

Ex-DHL senior roles (20+ years building/scaling tech-led businesses across Asia Pacific); multiple entrepreneurial ventures in Asia spanning enterprise sales, product strategy, and AI-driven transformation. Alumnus of IE Business School.

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