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Ncino Partner

Can a cloud-based Bank Operating System become the end-to-end origination, underwriting, and compliance infrastructure layer for financial institutions of all sizes globally?

Founded2012
HQWilmington, North Carolina, USA
Total raised$213.2M (pre-IPO venture funding)
Latest roundIPO, July 2020
Valuation~$3B fully diluted at IPO pricing
IndustryVertical SaaS / Banking & Financial Institutions
The story

Founded in 2012 as a cloud-based Bank Operating System built atop Salesforce, nCino initially focused on commercial loan origination for community and regional banks. The company expanded progressively into small business lending, retail banking, mortgage (via the 2022 SimpleNexus acquisition), and identity/KYC solutions. Its embedded finance angle is as an infrastructure layer for financial institutions: nCino sells the origination, underwriting, and compliance rails that banks use to issue loans — not a direct lender itself — with integrations to open banking (Plaid), accounting data (Codat), and identity services forming the intelligence layer.

Last 12 months
2025-12
Product timeline
2012
nCino founded to build a cloud-based Bank Operating System on the Salesforce platform for financial institutions.· pivot
2020
nCino filed S-1 and completed IPO on Nasdaq (NCNO), raising approximately $250M at a ~$3B market cap.· ipo
2022
Acquired SimpleNexus (mortgage point-of-sale platform) to expand into residential mortgage origination.· acquisition
2023
Launched nCino Identity Solutions (nKYC) offering KYC/AML and identity verification capabilities for financial institutions.· banking
2024
Partnered with Codat to integrate accounting data into small business loan underwriting within the nCino platform.· lending
2025
Published BNPL affordability checks guidance via nCino Identity Solutions, expanding into consumer credit compliance tooling.· lending
The stack
Lending
Small Business Loan Origination System (LOS)Commercial Loan OriginationRetail Banking Loan OriginationMortgage Suite (via SimpleNexus)Automated Spreading (ML/OCR for financial statements)
Open banking
Plaid
Accounting
Codat
Accounting gap: minor