Led by Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Venture Capital Group with Participation from Heavybit and Others
Kosli, the leader in Software Delivery Governance automation, today announced it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) group, with participation from Heavybit, Defined, Transpose Platform, and a number of angel investors.
The investment will accelerate Kosli’s expansion into large financial institutions, strengthen its team across all departments, and enhance its platform to deliver more powerful governance automation capabilities.
As part of this milestone, Kosli has launched Kosli Enterprise, a new offering designed for the complex governance and compliance needs of large financial services organizations. Kosli Enterprise combines a secure, append-only evidence platform with expert controls engineering services, helping enterprises map high-level governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements to the fast-moving realities of modern DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
Solving the Governance Bottleneck in Financial Services
While financial institutions have made significant progress in automating software delivery pipelines, governance, risk, and compliance processes have lagged behind. Manual governance remains a critical bottleneck—delaying releases, increasing costs, and exposing organizations to unnecessary risk.
Since its founding in 2019, Kosli has worked with leading global banks to overcome these challenges. The Kosli platform automates change controls, delivers real-time visibility across the software lifecycle, and generates trusted audit records—without slowing down development.
“We are delighted to partner and collaborate with Kosli to drive our vision of a highly efficient, transparent, and secure software development lifecycle that empowers our engineers to focus on developing solutions for the bank’s clients.”
— Martin Reeves, Engineering Platforms and Practice Lead, Deutsche Bank
Introducing Kosli Enterprise
Kosli Enterprise helps large teams in banking and financial services automate governance bottlenecks by:
- Recording every software change event – Automatically tracks all changes to runtime environments and links them to developer actions.
- Automating controls – Removes paperwork and delays by making change controls and audits fully automated.
- Integrating with existing tools – Works with any runtime or CI/CD tool, ensuring compatibility with diverse tech stacks.
- Ensuring a customer-first security model – Customers push selected data to Kosli, maintaining full control.
- Generating a provable audit trail – Append-only, tamper-proof records of all events.
- Providing controls engineering expertise – Professional services team maps high-level GRC controls to the atomic level of software delivery.
“Kosli has been a great partner, not just in terms of their product and the control it offers us, but also in the end-to-end thinking around how we build a strong, well-governed, well-controlled process.”
— Sean Langton, CIO, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
Fueling Future Growth
The Series A investment enables Kosli to accelerate product development and scale customer success initiatives across the financial services sector and beyond.
“At Heavybit, we recognize the importance of being able to guarantee—in an era of AI-generated software—what software is running and when. We’re excited to support Kosli’s mission of delivering software more securely and with more accountability.”
— Tom Drummond, Managing Director, Heavybit
Kosli is already trusted by some of the world’s largest banks and financial institutions. Increasingly, large DevOps teams in industries such as telecommunications, utilities, aviation, and media are facing the same governance challenges—and turning to Kosli for solutions.
About Kosli
Founded in 2019, Kosli is the category leader in Software Delivery Governance automation. The Kosli platform enables organizations to automate change controls, provide real-time visibility across the software lifecycle, and generate secure, trusted audit records. Kosli empowers regulated and security-conscious enterprises to deliver software at the speed of DevOps—without compromising on compliance.
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