FinancialContent / AB Newswire · Jun 2026
Announced a dedicated AI consulting practice for banks and insurers, claiming 224 workflows across 29 departments and emphasizing production deployments inside client environments.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Jinba (operated by Carnot Inc.) is a founder-led enterprise AI workflow platform for regulated industries. It lets users build, test, and deploy auditable workflows from plain-language prompts via Jinba Flow and Jinba App, with SOC 2, SSO, RBAC, audit logging, and on-prem/private-cloud deployment. Public sources report both a 2023 pre-seed and a 2026 Y Combinator seed round.
Primary product
Jinba Flow
Founded
2023
Headquarters
6 Chome-10-1 Roppongi, 15F Circle by ANRI, Minato, Tokyo 106-6108, Japan
Team size
1-10
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Enterprise AI workflow automation for regulated industries
Offices
Business model
Investors
Small founder-led team with a product-and-consulting mix; public hiring copy emphasizes shipping fast for enterprise customers, building from San Francisco and Tokyo, and recruiting internationally.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Public YC job listings showed Founding Engineer and Founding Design Engineer roles at $150K-$250K and Chief of Staff at $100K-$150K; other comp details were not public.
Pricing
Tiered SaaS subscription with a free/trial tier, team plans, usage credits for workflow execution, and custom enterprise/on-prem pricing.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
FinancialContent / AB Newswire · Jun 2026
Announced a dedicated AI consulting practice for banks and insurers, claiming 224 workflows across 29 departments and emphasizing production deployments inside client environments.
LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Company post arguing Jinba is moving AI from content generation into operational workflows that read requests, classify intent, and trigger actions in production systems.
Y Combinator · Feb 2026
YC launch page describing Jinba as a chat-based workflow builder for enterprises, positioned as enterprise Lovable-meets-n8n with built-in security and compliance.
LinkedIn · Jan 2026
Company post claiming more than 40,000 enterprise employees use Jinba-generated workflows every day.
ASCII STARTUP · Dec 2025
Japanese press coverage of Jinba/Carnot being selected for Y Combinator Winter 2026 and expanding globally from Japan.