The people behind the platform

Built By People Who Understand Governed Systems
In Regulated Environments.

AmberNovaAI was founded on one conviction: regulated industries deserve a purpose-built governed AI stack. We are building it, one pillar at a time, with practitioners who have lived the regulatory audit, led the risk committee, and built the systems that had to hold under examination.

What we are building

One governed foundation.
Two product clusters.

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AI Governance Suite

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Compliance Automation

The obligation to evidence AI decisions, manage model risk, and maintain regulatory readiness is not going to simplify. The institutions that will hold under changing regulations are the ones who have envisaged their governance infrastructure adapting with change.

AmberNovaAI is the governed AI stack institutions were missing. Purpose-built, Evidenced from day one. Deployed with practitioners who understand what examination actually requires — because they have been in the room when it happened.

Incorporated in India in February 2025. Currently deploying with select regulated institutions across India and the Gulf. Building toward the reference library one deployment at a time.

Founders

Two practitioners.
One governed platform.

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Liz Thomas

Co-Founder  ·  AmberNovaAI

Board Risk Advisor and GRC Advisory. Former IBM. Over 60+ Global Programme Implementations across BFSI and Regulated Industries. Liz leads Strategy, Institutional Partnerships, and the Governance Vision behind the AmberNovaAI platform — bringing to it the perspective of someone who has advised boards on risk and sat across the table from regulators.

MBA  ·  IIM Kozhikode

AI Governance  •  GRC  •  Board Governance  •  Global Regulatory Compliance  •  IT Enabled Business Transformation

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Varghese Cottagiri

Co-Founder  ·  AmberNovaAI

Platform Architect and Technical Founder. Varghese leads the Design and Development of the AmberNovaAI Product Suite Architecture — Two clusters, Ten Named Products, One Governed Foundation. He built the systems that the Platform's Governance Philosophy runs on, and continues to lead the Technical Direction of every Product in the Suite.

Enterprise Platform Architecture  ·  AI Systems  ·  Regulatory Technology  ·  Multi-Regulator Compliance Systems  ·  Distributed Systems

News & Recognition

Milestones

Feb
2025

Incorporation

AmberNovaAI Software Private Limited

Incorporated in February 2025 and headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana. Registered under the Companies Act, 2013 with CIN U62099TS2025PTC193700.

Jun
2025

Registrations

GSTIN & Startup India (DPIIT) Completed

Goods & Services Tax registration and DPIIT Startup India recognition (DIPP205433) completed, establishing the regulatory and commercial foundation for enterprise engagement.

Oct
2025

Accelerator

T-Hub MATH Nuage Accelerator — Inducted

Selected for the T-Hub MATH Nuage Accelerator Program in a collaborative capacity, connecting AmberNovaAI with Hyderabad's deep-tech and govtech ecosystem.

Dec
2025

Design Partner Engagement

Architectural Firm — Signed Pilot LOI

An established architectural firm engaged as a Design Partner under a signed Letter of Intent, with measurable productivity and delivery KPIs. AmberNovaAI's first governed deployment contract.

Why we built this

Regulated industries kept solving governance with
tools that provided inadequate evidence.

Compliance platforms were built for compliance teams. AI platforms were built for engineers. Neither was built for the moment when an examiner asks: show me every decision your model made, why it made it, and what your board knew about it.

That question does not have a good answer in most regulated institutions today. The evidence exists — scattered across spreadsheets, emails, audit logs, and the memories of people who have since moved on. Reconstructing it is expensive, slow, and never complete.

AmberNovaAI makes continuous governance the default. Not a report you run at year-end. Not a project you scope when the examination is announced. A live, evidenced record of every model decision, policy exception, and regulatory obligation — built into the workflow from the day the platform is deployed.

That is what we set out to build. That is what is in deployment today.

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