CB Insights Names Lama AI Among the World’s Most Promising Fintech Companies for 2026

CB Insights Names Lama AI Among the World’s Most Promising Fintech Companies for 2026

Lama AI recognized for accelerating lending decisions with its AI-native LOS serving dozens of banks

NEW YORK, October 28, 2026 – CB Insights named Lama AI, an AI-native SMB, SBA and Commercial LOS, to its ninth annual Fintech 100, showcasing the 100 most promising fintech startups in the world.

The recognition comes as dozens of U.S. banks use Lama AI in production to accelerate lending decisions and expand their capacity to serve more businesses. This growing adoption reflects a shared priority across lending teams: using AI to serve 10x more businesses without proportionally increasing headcount.

Lama AI’s bank partners use the platform to streamline borrower intake, document collection, financial analysis, underwriting, processing and portfolio monitoring. By bringing these activities into one connected workflow, Lama AI helps lenders spend less time gathering, organizing and validating information, while creating more capacity to generate new business and deepen relationships with their clients.

“Adding AI to a legacy lending system can make individual tasks faster, but it does not fundamentally change how lending gets done,” said Omri Yacubovich, Co Founder and CEO of Lama AI. “Lama AI was built as an AI native platform around a different operating model, where data, decisions, workflows and human judgment work together from the start. That is what allows banks to move beyond incremental efficiency gains and serve dramatically more businesses without adding equivalent cost or complexity. Being named to the Fintech 100 is meaningful validation of that vision and of the banks already putting it into practice.”

“The 2026 Fintech 100 identifies the startups reshaping how financial services work behind the scenes. This year’s cohort spans payments, lending, wealth, and digital assets, and what unites them is the data behind their selection: strong deal activity, top-tier investors, and partnerships with industry leaders,” said Aisha Chandraker, Fintech Analyst at CB Insights.

The 2026 list spans 21 categories across six sections of the fintech market. CB Insights selected the winners using datasets covering deal activity, industry partnerships, team strength, investor strength, employee headcount, and proprietary metrics.

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About Lama AI

Lama AI provides AI-native loan origination infrastructure for community and regional banks. Its platform helps automate intake, borrower assistance, document collection, underwriting preparation, decisioning workflows, closing, and portfolio monitoring, enabling banks to scale lending operations while reducing manual work. Trusted by leading community and regional banks, Lama AI helps lenders move faster, improve borrower experience, and preserve the credit discipline, oversight, and compliance standards required in regulated lending. Lama AI is on a mission to expand access to fair, profitable capital for businesses and beyond. Learn more at lama.ai.

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