About Us

We are building the future of AI-native financial services

Founders
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Apoorv Saxena
CEO, Co-founder
Former SilverLake, JP Morgan, Google AI executive.
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Lak Lakshmanan
CTO, Co-founder
Former SilverLake, Google AI executive.
Author of multiple bestselling books on AI
Our Vision
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 judgement, 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 judgement, underwriting criteria, and risk appetite.

Our mission is simple: Expand institutional capacity without expanding headcount, enabling financial institutions to deploy capital faster, price risk more precisely, and operate with real-time insight that was previously impossible.
Advisors
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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
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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 at

Wall Street's discipline and depth with Silicon Valley's creativity and speed.

Our founding team is from world class organizations.

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