Singapore-based enterprise AI startup Pints AI has raised $5.6 million in a pre-Series A round led by Tin Men Capital, with SBI Ven Capital co-leading and participation from SEEDS, NTUitive, SUTD Venture Fund, and Tenity,

In a statement on Monday, Singapore-based Tin Men Capital said the funding can expand the firm’s AI deployment platform for regulated financial institutions across Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

The company’s platform, Autothought, connects directly to the core systems of banks and insurers, automating processes such as underwriting, claims, and onboarding while producing a full audit trail for every AI-assisted decision. In under two years, 12 institutions across four countries have saved a combined $10 million using the platform.

The firm will utilize the proceeds to expand the engineering team, build governance and audit capabilities for new regulatory environments, and develop Autothought Studio, a set of tools allowing institutions’ own engineering teams to build and manage AI applications internally.

Pints AI can help address a key challenge in regulated AI deployment as most AI projects inside financial institutions fail to move past the trial stage because decisions in underwriting, claims, or credit assessment must be traceable and defensible to regulators.

Autothought can meet compliance requirements of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Reserve Bank of India, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and other regional regulators. Every AI-assisted decision can be traced to its source data, and uncertain outputs are flagged for human review.

Partha Rao, CEO and Co-founder of Pints AI, said institutions that wire AI into core processes such as underwriting, credit decisioning, claims, and compliance will pull ahead beyond peer. Autothought was built so every decision can be traced, audited, and defended to any regulator in the world, the executive added.

Murli Ravi, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Tin Men Capital, said Pints AI has been quietly deploying auditable AI in financial institutions, delivering tens of millions in savings for clients, and that this kind of value will define the next phase of AI adoption globally.

Eiichiro So, CEO of SBI Ven Capital, said Pints AI understands the compliance-first deployment environment in a way that is rare at this stage. Autothought reflects what regulated institutions actually need to trust live AI operations, the CEO added.

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