Arabesque Holding Ltd.

What Arabesque Holding Ltd. does

Arabesque Holding Ltd., operating through its subsidiary Arabesque AI Limited, is a London-based fintech founded in 2013 that develops AutoCIO, an AI-driven portfolio management platform for institutional investors. The platform generates daily forward-looking signals across 50,000+ global equities using 87+ machine learning features per stock, processing 35 billion data points to produce 230,000+ daily signals that adapt continuously to market behavior without relying on static models. Core capabilities include portfolio construction from scratch, optimization and rebalancing of existing portfolios via CSV/Excel/PDF upload, AI-driven enhancement of 64,000+ global funds and ETFs, and a natural language AI co-pilot that orchestrates specialized agents for multi-step portfolio workflows.

The company operates an enterprise B2B SaaS model with annual subscription-based, quote-based pricing tailored to institutional requirements. Distribution combines direct enterprise field sales targeting institutional investors and asset managers, a self-serve platform at app.autocio.com for professional investors, and an API-first architecture with Python SDK and MCP connectivity enabling embedding into fund-of-funds and multi-strategy platform workflows. The platform is natively integrated with Claude AI, ChatGPT, and Google Gemini, and was listed in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Gallery in April 2026 as a Financial Forecasting Agent. Named enterprise customers include Google Cloud, DWS, eToro, and HSBC. The company also manages the Arabesque Global ESG Equity Fund, a 5-star Morningstar-rated UCITS vehicle that provides a four-year live audited track record of the platform's investment capabilities.

Name

Arabesque Holding Ltd.

Legal name

Arabesque AI Limited

Website

https://arabesque.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Arabesque Holding Ltd. operates AutoCIO, an AI-native portfolio management platform serving institutional investors with daily ML signals across 50,000+ global equities. Founded in 2013 in London, the company delivers portfolio construction, optimization, and AI enhancement via API and AI assistant integrations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Portfolio Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA), Model Serving, Inference & Deployment Platforms (APIs, Edge/On-Prem) (HDAEANAC)

Keywords

• AI portfolio management
• ESG investment solutions
• AI-driven asset management
• Sustainable finance data
• Equity signal generation

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: B2B SaaS platform providing AI-driven portfolio management capabilities to institutional investors. Subscription-based access to AutoCIO platform features including portfolio construction, optimization, and AI enhancement tools. Targets professional and institutional investors with tailored demonstrations and enterprise pricing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Arabesque, through its Arabesque AI Limited subsidiary, sells the AutoCIO platform — an agentic AI portfolio management SaaS for institutional investors that builds portfolios from scratch, ingests and optimises existing holdings, searches and enhances 64,000+ global funds and ETFs, and exposes a natural-language AI co-pilot. The platform is delivered via direct enterprise sales, a self-serve authenticated app, and API/SDK integrations into Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT.

Product overview

AutoCIO is a unified AI-driven platform for portfolio management offered by Arabesque AI Limited. The core product is AutoCIO, which combines four main functional modules: (1) Build from Scratch - for constructing portfolios from scratch with daily AI forecasts across 50,000+ equities; (2) Upload & Optimise - for analyzing and rebalancing existing portfolios via CSV, Excel, or PDF upload; (3) Search & Enhance - for searching 64,000+ global funds and ETFs and improving performance with AI; and (4) AI Co-Pilot Mode - for natural language interaction to analyze portfolios and execute complex tasks. The platform is powered by daily AI signals generated from 35 billion data points and connects via API, Python SDK, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) to AI assistants including Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Arabesque Global ESG Equity Fund: 5-star Morningstar rated UCITS fund managed by AutoCIO's AI platform with a four-year live track record.

Products and services

• AutoCIO Platform Agentic AI portfolio management SaaS for institutional and professional investors that builds portfolios from scratch using daily AI forecasts across 50,000+ equities, ingests and optimises existing holdings via CSV/Excel/PDF, searches and enhances 64,000+ global funds and ETFs, and provides a natural-language AI co-pilot for multi-step workflows; sold via direct enterprise sales, self-serve app, and API/SDK integrations into Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT.
• AutoCIO on Gemini Enterprise (Financial Forecasting Agent) Distribution of the AutoCIO Financial Forecasting Agent inside Google Gemini Enterprise Agent Gallery, allowing enterprise users to access AutoCIO's AI portfolio construction, optimisation, and enhancement capabilities natively through Gemini.
• Arabesque Global ESG Equity Fund 5-star Morningstar-rated UCITS fund managed using AutoCIO technology, providing institutional investors with a live, audited track record of AI-managed global ESG equity exposure.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50,000+ fund simulations showing 1.2% annual excess return net of costs
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability10 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Google Gemini EnterprisecoreTechnology or Integration · 9 April 2026Financial Forecasting Agent live in Gemini Enterprise Agent Gallery. Enables design, optimization, and enhancement of portfolios inside Google's agentic platform. Users can access AutoCIO's AI portfolio capabilities directly through Gemini Enterprise.
• Claude AIcoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Claude AI allowing users to access AutoCIO portfolio management capabilities through Anthropic's AI assistant. Part of broader tool integration strategy.
• ChatGPTcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with OpenAI's ChatGPT enabling access to AutoCIO portfolio management features through the ChatGPT platform. Part of multi-AI platform distribution strategy.
• Google CloudcoreTechnology or IntegrationInfrastructure partner powering AutoCIO platform. Google Cloud logo displayed as trusted technology partner alongside customer logos, indicating deep technical collaboration.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Alpaca: Alpaca is an API-first brokerage and trading infrastructure platform serving fintechs, wealth platforms, and asset managers. It overlaps with AutoCIO's API-first distribution strategy and is a relevant emerging peer for embedded investment workflows.
• AlphaSense: AlphaSense (which absorbed Sentieo) provides AI-driven market and investment research intelligence used by institutional investors and corporations. It is an emerging peer in the AI-for-investment-research category that overlaps with AutoCIO's AI co-pilot and natural language analysis capabilities.

Direct peers

• SigTech: SigTech offers an AI-driven, cloud-native investment analytics and backtesting platform for institutional quants and asset managers. It is a close emerging direct peer in the AI-native institutional portfolio analytics category.
• SimCorp: SimCorp sells an integrated investment management platform (front-to-back office) used by asset managers and asset owners worldwide. It is the closest direct peer for AutoCIO's institutional portfolio-management SaaS positioning and competes for the same buy-side RFPs.
• Qontigo: Qontigo combines Axioma portfolio analytics and STOXX index capabilities, providing portfolio construction, risk, and ESG analytics to institutional investors. It is a focused direct competitor in the portfolio optimization and ESG analytics category that AutoCIO addresses.
• Charles River Development: Charles River Development (State Street) provides an institutional investment management platform covering portfolio management, trading, and compliance. It directly competes with AutoCIO for the platform layer used by large asset managers.

Broad incumbents

• BlackRock Aladdin: BlackRock's Aladdin is the dominant institutional investment operating system used by the world's largest asset managers and asset owners for portfolio management, risk, and analytics. It is the principal broad incumbent that AutoCIO will need to displace or integrate with at large institutional clients.
• Bloomberg Terminal: Bloomberg is the default data, analytics, and workflow layer for institutional investment professionals. AutoCIO competes with and integrates alongside Bloomberg for portfolio construction use cases within the same institutional buy-side desks.
• MSCI: MSCI provides portfolio analytics, ESG ratings, and risk modeling widely used by asset managers and asset owners. Its ESG and analytics franchise overlaps directly with AutoCIO's sustainability-tilted portfolio construction capabilities and is a key incumbents-compared benchmark.
• FactSet: FactSet supplies portfolio analytics, multi-asset data, and workflow tools to asset managers and buyside institutions. Its portfolio analytics and screening capabilities are a direct competitor for the institutional workflows AutoCIO is targeting.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/arabesqueam

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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