SBI Holdings, Inc today announced that it has made an investment, as a co-lead investor in the early funding round of Pints AI, a provider of agentic AI specifically designed for financial institutions with strict privacy and compliance requirements.

This investment was made through the SBI-NTU-Kyobo Digital Innovation Fund.

Pints AI provides the AI platform “Autothought.” This system is designed to enable highly regulated financial institutions, including banks and insurance companies, to automate critical, manual-heavy business processes such as underwriting, insurance claims, and new client onboarding.

The platform generates traceable audit trails for AI-assisted decisions to meet accountability standards. It is also built on a proprietary agent orchestration framework that routes each task to the most suitable engine, from purpose-built small language models to more powerful ones, allowing an institution to run its AI operations on one governed and auditable system.

Pints AI’s system is already highly regarded; in less than two years since the company’s inception, it has been deployed by 12 financial institutions across four countries and regions: Singapore, India, Hong Kong, and the United States.

The new funding will drive expansion into new markets across the Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Pints AI will also grow their engineering team and build out governance and audit capabilities for new regulatory environments. Additionally, the company will develop “Autothought Studio”, a suite of tools that enables institutions’ own engineering teams to build and manage AI applications internally.