Narmi was founded by two Georgetown University grads – Nikhil Lakhanpal and Chris Griffin – who led the nation’s largest entirely student-run financial institution (the Georgetown University Credit Union) as CEO and CTO, respectively.
While running Georgetown’s credit union, they became aware of the sub-par online and mobile banking offerings utilized by the majority of regional and community financial institutions. Nikhil and Chris themselves felt they did not have the right technology available to retain and engage their customer base which was primarily students. Nearly five years later and after gaining experience at some of the largest banks in the world, Nikhil and Chris realized the same problems they faced at Georgetown still exist today, and began Narmi to tackle them.