Capitolis is a financial technology company that builds capital markets infrastructure and offers a Capital Marketplace and Portfolio Optimization products. The company announced new strategic investments from major global banks and venture capital firms to support growth. Named investors include Barclays, BNP Paribas, J.P. Morgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley, State Street, UBS, and VC backers Canapi Ventures, 9Yards Capital, and Greenfield Partners. The announcement states these investments bring total funding to $56 million. Capitolis said it will use the funds to support growth in its Capital Marketplace and Portfolio Optimization businesses and to continue fostering close partnerships with leading financial institutions. Company leadership emphasized the continued strategic support from banks and expanded backing from VC investors following their participation in Capitolis's Series D round. Capitolis builds capital-markets technology to unlock capital constraints and enable broader access to diversified capital and investment opportunities. It launched an innovative futures porting solution, developed in collaboration with Barclays and Citadel, that automates and streamlines the manual workflow of porting futures positions between Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) and buy-side firms. The first version is live, with Citadel and other buy-side firms using it regularly to facilitate position transfers with Barclays and other FCMs. Capitolis plans to introduce additional functionality and onboard more buy- and sell-side participants in the coming months to further simplify and standardize the workflow. The company previously launched an automated novation service in FX in 2018 and continues to expand its post-trade product set. Capitolis also announced a strategic investment from Barclays and the addition of a Barclays representative to its board as part of the deeper commercial collaboration. Capitolis develops technology to unlock capital constraints and enable greater access to diversified capital and investment opportunities for global and regional banks and institutional investors. Its core offerings include the Capital Marketplace and Portfolio Optimization businesses. The company said the new funds will be used to fuel growth across both businesses and support continued product releases. Capitolis is seeing strong business momentum, citing revenue growth, increased network participation, and new product launches. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, Capitolis is backed by prominent venture firms and global banks. The company has received industry recognition from publications and awards including CNBC, Euromoney, Fast Company, Deloitte, American Banker, and Crain’s. Capitolis builds technology to modernize how big banks move money in the capital markets, centered on a compression and novation engine and a collaboration marketplace. Its proprietary algorithms enable institutions to eliminate, move or create trading positions by collaborating with other financial institutions, expanding pools of capital and credit lines. The company works with more than 100 big banks, has transacted over $60 billion notional from more than 30 investors, and says it has optimized over $13 trillion in trades. Recently it developed compression technology to reduce Russian ruble exposure for a large network of global banks after being approached by those institutions, demonstrating applicability in sanctions-driven scenarios. Capitolis says it will use new funding to double down on growth, super-charge its marketplace and accelerate product innovation. The company is a U.S./Israeli startup and has raised $280 million to date. Capitolis builds a networked SaaS platform for capital markets firms that uses advanced workflow technology and proprietary algorithms to let banks, hedge funds and asset managers eliminate, move or create trading positions by collaborating with other institutions. The software is designed to optimize balance sheets, reduce risk, free up capital, open credit lines and broaden access to capital. The platform currently covers foreign exchange products and equity swaps and the company says it could expand into other products if clients demand it. Seventy-five financial institutions use Capitolis, which reports it has optimized $9 trillion in gross notional balances to date. The company says its revenue run rate grew sixfold in 2020 and platform users increased 230% since 2019. Capitolis plans to use new funding to develop product and expand customer support and sales, and to grow headcount from 90 to over 150 by year-end.

Total raised

$345M

Funding rounds

9

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Aug 2025