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.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
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
Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Palo Alto, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
SaaS
consulting/services
enterprise subscription
Funding
People & investors
Investors
Work & culture
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.
Product & market
Pricing
Tiered SaaS subscription with a free/trial tier, team plans, usage credits for workflow execution, and custom enterprise/on-prem pricing.
Differentiators
- —Plain-language workflow creation instead of drag-and-drop only
- —Two-product model: Jinba Flow for building and Jinba App for execution
- —Enterprise security features: SOC 2, SSO, RBAC, audit logging
- —On-premises and private-cloud deployment
- —100+ integrations plus custom connectors
- —MCP/API deployment targets
- —Designed for regulated banking and insurance workflows
- —Consulting plus software delivery that goes from blueprint to production
Technology
OpenAI
AWS Bedrock
Azure OpenAI
Meta Llama 3
Slack
Salesforce
Linear
GitHub
Dropbox
Microsoft Teams
Notion
HubSpot
MCP
SSO
RBAC
audit logging
on-premises deployment
private cloud deployment
custom connectors
YAML
Customers
banks
insurers
manufacturing companies
major financial institutions
Fortune Global 500 companies
regulated enterprises
Japanese enterprises
Competitors
Box
Pipefy
Moveworks
n8n
Workato
Zapier
UnifyApps
Zest AI
Scale & contact
Latest news
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.
Jobs and careers at Jinba
9 jobs at Jinba
Product Designer
Remote
Growth
San Francisco
7mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Senior Engineer (Growth)
Remote
Growth
San Francisco
7mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Chief of Staff
Remote
Operations
San Francisco
8mo ago
Remote
Contract
Senior Frontend Engineer
Remote
Engineering
Tokyo
9mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Founding Design Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
9mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Founding Sales Lead
Remote
Sales
Tokyo
9mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Forward Deployed Engineer
Remote
Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco
9mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Forward Deployed Engineer
Remote
Forward Deployed Engineering
Tokyo
9mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Founding Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
9mo ago
On-site
Full-time