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Kobalt Labs

AI-powered risk and compliance for financial institutions

Y CombinatorSummer 2023ActiveB2BOperationsBanking as a ServiceFintech

What they do

Problem

Financial institutions and fintechs face slow, manual, and resource-intensive risk and compliance due diligence and monitoring for third-party vendors and partnerships.

Solution

An AI reasoning engine that ingests contracts, internal policies, past assessments, and external regulations to automatically surface, track, and manage compliance and privacy risks.

Who it's for

Community/regional/sponsor banks and fintech compliance and risk teams managing vendor and partner diligence.

Founders

Kalyani Ramadurgam
Founder

Kalyani is the CEO of Kobalt Labs. She previously conducted AI research at Stanford, built financial security products at Apple, and built health data analysis tools used by governments of 13 countries at Zenysis. She graduated from Stanford with her MS in Computer Science (concentration in AI), and her BS in Computer Science (AI) with a minor in Human Rights.

Ashi Agrawal
Founder

CTO of Kobalt Labs, infra engineer, & lover of reusable & extensible systems. Prev. at Affirm, Nuna, and Meta. Stanford BS in Computer Science.

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