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Kasisto

Conversational AI for finance

21-100 employees
  • Fintech
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Communication
43 W 24th St, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010

Company mission

Kasisto's mission is to promote smart financial decisions and strong financial wellness for all.

Female leader

-3% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Kasisto is a conversational AI platform that offers companies in the finance sector intelligent insights into their customers and markets. The solution aims to combine financial and behavioral data with interaction histories, assisting financial organizations to create engaging and personalized customer experiences.

Its solution has been particularly successful in the African continent, where it helped to connect unbanked individuals with providers. Three of the top five financial institutions within the African market - Absa, Nedbank, and Standard Bank - use Kasisto, making it the top solution in Africa.

Other customers of Kasisto include the likes of J.P. Morgan, Westpac, and Standard Chartered. The company is tightly integrated into the fintech ecosystem through partnerships with proven technology providers such as FIS, though it does also face a number of competitors such as Finn AI, Alpharank, and Personetics.

So far, Kasisto has impressed investors and has attracted substantial funding, the latest of which is cited to support product development efforts and strategic go-to-market initiatives. In 2023, the company debuted KAI-GPT - which it claims to be the first banking-specific large language model - to address the unique needs of the industry.

Benefits

  • Nutritious snacks, drinks, and meals
  • Medical, dental & vision
  • 401K
  • Life Insurance
  • Generous PTO policy, plus paid company holidays
  • Company-sponsored events, lectures, wellness activities, and sports leagues

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Aug 2022

$15.5m

SERIES C

Jul 2021

$15.5m

SERIES C

$81.5m

Total funding

Founders

Co-founded Software Corp of America, then worked as COO of BuzzCompany.com before serving as President of Multex.com, SpeechCycle, and Reiter Brown.

Previous Consultant at Microsoft before spending 4 years as CEO of BuzzCompany.com and 10 at SpeechCycle Corp. Co-founded Kasisto while working as an OpDemand Investor.