Kobalt Labs (YC S23) — AI-powered risk and compliance for financial institutions
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Automate and strengthen manual risk and compliance operations for fintechs and banks. Given a third party contracts and documentation, Kobalt’s reasoning engine ingests internal policies and procedures, legal commitments, past privacy and compliance assessments, and syncs with external legislation to instantly auto-surface and track risks.
Kobalt Labs is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI-powered risk and compliance for financial institutions. The founders listed are Kalyani Ramadurgam (Founder), Ashi Agrawal (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 5, 2023).
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Automate and strengthen manual risk and compliance operations for fintechs and banks. Given a third party contracts and documentation, Kobalt’s reasoning engine ingests internal policies and procedures, legal commitments, past privacy and compliance assessments, and syncs with external legislation to instantly auto-surface and track risks.
We're helping community/regional/sponsor banks increase revenue and scale their partnership and vendor volume, and we're helping fintechs conduct their partner diligence in 1/10 the time, all without needing to increase headcount.
Kalyani Ramadurgam
Founder
Ashi Agrawal
Founder
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