Ex-Microsoft APAC President Launches kAIgentic With $10 Mn

MARINA BAY, Singapore - June 4, 2026 - PRLog -- Ahmed Mazhari, former President of Microsoft Asia Pacific, has launched kAIgentic, an agentic AI venture founded in strategic partnership with SMBC Group, one of Japan's largest financial groups, with $10 Mn in funding.

Headquartered in Singapore with core engineering operations in India, kAIgentic is building AI deployment infrastructure for large-scale enterprise operations. The company will begin by deploying its platform within SMBC Group, allowing its systems to be developed and tested inside live banking workflows before expanding to other complex global enterprises.

kAIgentic is focused on one of the core challenges in enterprise AI: moving from experimentation to safe, governed deployment. The platform is designed to capture the unwritten, day-to-day operational logic of how work gets done inside large enterprises and use that context to build domain-specific AI agents. These agents run in production with continuous human supervision, governance, and accountability.

"The bet behind kAIgentic is that enterprise AI will be won not by model access alone, but by the application layer that turns AI into governed operations," said Ahmed Mazhari, Founder and CEO, kAIgentic. "The bottleneck in enterprise AI is no longer model capability. It is whether large organisations can absorb intelligence into their most critical operations, at speed, with the standards and policies they must maintain."

kAIgentic's partnership with SMBC Group gives the company a high-stakes enterprise environment to validate its platform from day one. The structure is designed to create value at three levels: supporting AI transformation within SMBC Group, serving SMBC Group's customers, and building a platform that can generalise beyond the bank to other regulated and complex enterprises.

kAIgentic's model combines the institutional depth of a global financial group with the speed and product focus of an independent platform company. The company has an independent board and is being built to serve enterprises beyond SMBC Group.

Mazhari brings more than three decades of enterprise technology leadership to kAIgentic. Before founding the company, he served as President of Microsoft APAC, where he helped build the foundation for AI deployment across the region. Earlier, he was part of the founding team at Genpact and later served as its Chief Growth Officer.

Once proven within banking operations, kAIgentic plans to scale its platform across adjacent regulated and complex sectors, including healthcare, consumer packaged goods, retail, and telecommunications.

About kAIgentic

kAIgentic is an agentic AI venture building autonomous and accountable agents grounded in enterprise knowledge. Headquartered in Singapore with core engineering operations in India, the company captures how work actually happens inside large enterprises, builds AI agents from that understanding, and runs them in production with continuous human supervision. kAIgentic was founded by Ahmed Mazhari, former President of Microsoft Asia Pacific.

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