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Duco

AI-powered Data Automation

Duco is a leading provider of AI-powered data automation to global financial institutions. Its cloud-native, no-code platform enables operations teams to automate complex data processes while maintaining the controls required in regulated financial environments.

Company background

  • Duco addresses mission-critical data management challenges through a cloud-native, no-code Software as a Service (SaaS) platform spanning data preparation, reconciliation, exception management and data quality.
  • Trusted by over 200 customers, including a significant share of the world's top 20 banks, across banks, asset managers, asset servicers and alternative asset managers.


Vision & outlook

  • Support Duco's mission to “make managing data easy” and broaden automation across mission-critical financial operations.
  • Accelerate investment in AI-powered and agentic capabilities that help financial institutions strengthen operational controls, improve data quality and increase efficiency.


Highlights & updates 

  • In 2023, initiated a climate program to reduce, recapture and invest in nascent CO2 removal technologies. 
  • Acquired Metamaze in February 2024, enabling a broader data automation offering.
  • Strategic partnership with CIBC Mellon, leveraging Duco technology to enhance enterprise data automation.
  • Expanded the platform with agentic AI capabilities, including AI-assisted rule creation and automated document processing, as part of its shift towards agentic operations for financial services.
  • In March 2026, Founder Christian Nentwich returned as CEO to lead Duco’s next phase of AI-driven growth.
  • In May 2026, unveiled Agentic Workspace, its agentic operations platform for financial services, bringing autonomous agents together with Duco’s established reconciliation, data preparation, exception management and audit capabilities.
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SECTOR

Technology & Payments

REVENUES 2025

EUR 40 million

EMPLOYEES

215

OWNERSHIP

Fund X

INVESTMENT DATE

2021

HEAD OFFICE

London, United Kingdom

MANAGEMENT

Christian Nentwich

CEO

Danielle Price

CFO

CHAIRPERSON

Johan Ek

RESPONSIBLE ADVISOR

Emil Anderson

Partner | Co-Head of Financial Services 

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