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nCino
nCino launched in 2012 as a standalone company after CEO Pierre Naudé and a core team at community-bank core provider Live Oak Bank recognized that...
nCino
nCino launched in 2012 as a standalone company after CEO Pierre Naudé and a core team at community-bank core provider Live Oak Bank recognized that off-the-shelf banking software couldn't handle the complexity of commercial and small-business lending. The initial build sat on the Salesforce platform — a decision that gave nCino a pre-wired distribution edge and a familiar CRM interface for loan officers tired of green-screen mainframes. nCino filed as a public company in July 2020, listing on the Nasdaq under the ticker NCNO, and has since executed a steady push into enterprise banking while layering on mortgage and account-opening modules. The company's strategy centers on raw origination velocity. nCino's Bank Operating System spans commercial, small business, mortgage, and retail lending, with embedded document management, portfolio analytics, and an application marketplace pulling in third-party data providers. It goes to market through direct sales to financial institutions of every tier — from $300M community banks to global Tier 1s — and through reseller partnerships with Accenture, Deloitte, and PwC. Confirmed deployments include Santander's UK small-business lending operation, Truist's commercial banking stack, and a multi-product rollout at Bank of America that began shortly after nCino's 2022 acquisition of mortgage automation vendor SimpleNexus for $1.2 billion. nCino operates its main campus out of Wilmington, North Carolina, with additional hubs in Salt Lake City, London, Sydney, Toronto, and Tokyo. The SimpleNexus acquisition doubled its mortgage footprint and brought roughly 200 employees into the fold, pushing total headcount past an estimated 2,200 by early 2025. In January 2025, affiliate NCR Voyix — the parent entity that houses nCino alongside NCR's retail POS business — announced a definitive agreement to split the companies fully apart, positioning nCino as an independent publicly traded pure-play again by mid-2025, per the firm's official communications. nCino's core differentiator remains its architectural bet on the Salesforce ecosystem. Rather than competing with banking-core behemoths like FIS or Temenos on ledger-level infrastructure, nCino sits at the engagement and workflow layer where commercial loan officers and relationship managers actually operate. That gives it a natural insertion point atop multiple legacy cores and a measurable time-to-close metric that institutions cite as the buying trigger. Since it is a public company with no founder liquidity phase left to manage, the governance horizon is now a conventional public-market story with independent board oversight and quarterly disclosure discipline.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
2012
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Wilmington
Corporate office
Wilmington, NC, United States
Additional offices
London, United Kingdom · Sydney, Australia · Toronto, Canada · Tokyo, Japan · Salt Lake City, UT
Principals
Pierre Naudé
Chairman and CEO
Greg Orenstein
CFO
Josh Glover
President and Chief Revenue Officer
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at nCino?
nCino is a publicly traded technology company, not a traditional investment firm, and does not have a CIO allocating third-party capital. Corporate investment and innovation decisions sit with the executive leadership team chaired by CEO Pierre Naudé and overseen by the board of directors. Post the NCR Voyix separation announced in January 2025, the company operates with conventional public-company governance and disclosure.
How does nCino source proprietary deal flow?
nCino sources proprietary product and acquisition pipeline through its direct relationships with 1,800+ financial institution clients, who serve as both product-feedback loops and distribution partners for adjacent modules. The company also identifies inorganic growth targets through its partnership ecosystem, notably the 2022 acquisition of mortgage-technology vendor SimpleNexus for $1.2 billion. Its Salesforce-platform architecture creates a natural extension path for clients already operating within that infrastructure.
Is nCino a financial services company or a technology vendor?
nCino is a pure software vendor, publicly listed under the technology sector and ticker NCNO. It does not take balance-sheet risk, lend capital, or manage assets. It sells subscription-based software that financial institutions use to originate commercial loans, open deposit accounts, and manage mortgage pipelines. The 2020 IPO and subsequent governance structure confirm the standard SaaS operating model.
Does nCino participate in fund commitments or only direct deals?
nCino does not participate in fund commitments in the institutional allocation sense. Its capital deployment is limited to corporate development: direct acquisitions of complementary software assets — SimpleNexus in 2022 is the most prominent example — and product R&D spending. The company has no LP portfolio and no fund-of-funds posture.
How is nCino related to NCR Voyix?
nCino and NCR Voyix share a complicated structural history. nCino went public independently in 2020, then in 2023-2024 became affiliated with NCR Voyix after NCR Corporation split its ATM and retail POS business from its digital banking division. That structure was short-lived: in January 2025, NCR Voyix and nCino disclosed a plan to fully separate again, restoring nCino as a standalone public company by mid-2025.
What is nCino's connection to Live Oak Bank?
nCino was incubated inside Live Oak Bank, a Wilmington, NC-based institution that specializes in SBA lending and served as the original product lab. CEO Pierre Naudé and the core engineering team built the first version of the platform to solve Live Oak's own loan-processing bottlenecks before spinning nCino out as an independent entity in 2012. Live Oak remains a customer and a significant historical reference account.
Which types of financial institutions are outside nCino's typical buyer profile?
nCino targets regulated deposit-taking institutions — banks and credit unions from $300M in assets up to global Tier 1s. It does not typically sell directly to private credit funds, hedge funds, or asset managers that lack deposit and branch infrastructure. The core value proposition assumes a lending workflow that passes through an institution's credit committee and compliance apparatus, which makes it less suited to non-bank lenders operating with fund-level governance.
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