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Deutsche Bank

Corporate

Deutsche Bank is a global investment bank and current client of CloudMargin.

Portfolio

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companies


Portfolio companies

Synthesized

Synthesized

Synthesized automates test data and infrastructure for enterprise software quality assurance.

Proxymity

Proxymity

Proxymity provides digital investor communication platforms for financial markets.

AccessFintech

AccessFintech

AccessFintech operates a data and workflow collaboration network for the financial industry.

CloudMargin

CloudMargin

CloudMargin provides cloud-native collateral and margin management solutions for the financial sector.


Team

Michaela Ludbrook

Michaela Ludbrook

Head of Securities Services

Michaela brings extensive banking and operations experience from senior roles at JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Deutsche Bank. She currently serves as a managing director.

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Joseph Macdonald

Director, Fixed Income and Currencies Trading

Joseph sits on the executive management committee at OSTTRA and previously held director and board roles at Deutsche Bank, CloudMargin, and AcadiaSoft.

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Stephen Bell

Global Head of FIC and Securities Services

Stephen brings extensive banking operations experience from senior roles at Barclays Capital, JP Morgan, and Deutsche Bank.

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Paul Maley

Global Head of Securities Services


Recent investments

Series A
£14.9M

Redalpine led the Series A round to support team expansion and the rollout of new capabilities.

"Synthesized is tackling one of the most urgent and overlooked challenges in the age of AI: how to test, validate, and trust what we build. Their platform doesn’t just generate high-quality test data – it lays the foundation for a new class of autonomous QA agents that will transform how modern software is verified and shipped. We believe Synthesized can become the infrastructure layer for intelligent, automated quality assurance across regulated and mission-critical systems."
— Daniel Graf, General Partner
Series B
£23.4M

The investment round was backed by a consortium of major financial institutions including BNY Mellon, Citi, and Computershare.

"We’re delighted to announce this successful round of fundraising, both in terms of the confidence our investors have shown in us, and in accessing new funds to fuel our significant global momentum. We continue to work closely with all our founding consortium members, and together, the Proxymity team is delivering on our vision, changing the industry ecosystem for the better."
— Dean Little, Co-Founder and CEO
Series B
£15.4M

Dawn Capital led the funding round, with participation from major banking institutions including Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, Citi, and Goldman Sachs.

"We have been proud supporters of AccessFintech since their origins in our In Residence programme and are pleased to support the next stage of their growth."
— Richard Gordon, Global Head of Securities Services Operations
Series B
£11.8M

The Series B round was led by Deutsche Bank alongside participation from Deutsche Börse and Citi.

"We’re delighted to enjoy the confidence of these premier global institutions and to give them an important voice on our Board of Directors as we continue on our exciting growth trajectory. During this unprecedented period of global turmoil and market volatility, it speaks volumes for the CloudMargin business model, achievements and strategy that we were able to successfully close this meaningful investment round with such high calibre partners as Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Börse and Citi. For financial services institutions, the impact of COVID-19 has further reinforced our value proposition by highlighting many challenges the industry has faced for a prolonged period and acting as a catalyst to drive transformational change; firms are placing a strategic priority on adopting modern, Software-as-a-Service based cloud technologies that provide agility as well as operational and cost efficiencies."
— Stuart Connolly, CEO
$20.5M

The strategic funding round was backed by eight major financial institutions including BNY Mellon, Citi, Clearstream, Computershare, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, and State Street.

"We’re extremely proud of what Proxymity has achieved so far within Citi since we developed the platform in 2017. To date, Proxymity has supported over 3,000 shareholder meetings and, after successful pilots, we’ve fully launched the platform in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Australia, as well as a pilot in Spain,"
— Dean Little, Co-Founder and CEO