Model ML, an AI workflow builder for financial services, has announced the acquisition of Captide, a leading financial data layer that converts complex global corporate filings and disclosures into LLM-ready documents and data for AI agents. This acquisition, which follows Model ML’s recent $75 million funding round from US and UK investors, expands the company’s AI workflow builder, enhancing its AI agents’ ability to reliably retrieve, reason over, and cite global filings.
Founded in 2024 by Maurits Brinkman and Miquel Trafí Ruiz, Captide’s API streamlines SEC filings, earnings calls, and other corporate documents, structuring them for accurate and scalable understanding by AI models. Its platform currently processes over 2.5 million documents and supports 1 billion embeddings. This integration allows Model ML’s clients, which include Big 4 accounting firms, consulting companies, and global financial institutions, to access disclosure intelligence through existing workflows and proprietary tools.
Model ML’s AI agents can now utilize this enhanced capability to reliably retrieve, analyze, and cite corporate disclosure data. Furthermore, teams can access this data securely, ensuring compliance with strict regulatory requirements.
Miquel Trafí Ruiz, Co-founder of Captide, stated, “We built Captide to make corporate disclosures usable across the entire AI pipeline. By joining Model ML we’re now bringing that capability into the workflows of the world’s largest financial institutions, where accuracy and traceability are non-negotiables.”
Chaz Englander, Co-founder and CEO of Model ML, commented, “As agentic AI systems move into real financial workflows, the bottleneck isn’t the models any more, it’s the data they’re built on. Even the most advanced models fail when they can’t reliably retrieve, interpret, and cite the underlying source material but corporate disclosures are fragmented, inconsistently formatted and hard for machines to use safely. Captide fixes that, and bringing it into Model ML gives our clients a way to deploy AI that works directly from source data, with outputs they can trust.”
This acquisition strengthens Model ML’s API-first approach, building on a period of significant growth for the London-born firm. Since emerging from stealth in February, co-founders Chaz and Arnie Englander have rapidly expanded Model ML. The company secured one of Europe’s largest $75 million Series A rounds in November, six months after a $12 million Seed round. Prior to this, in early 2025, Model ML acquired Flippr, which added automated PowerPoint generation and verification agents to its platform. Model ML’s AI agents have demonstrated strong performance in benchmarking tests against competitors, and the company now operates across the UK, US, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
This move aligns with Model ML’s mission to build an end-to-end AI operating system for finance, providing a unified solution rather than disconnected tools. The company aims to be a trusted partner for financial institutions, offering flexible deployment models that ensure data control, enterprise-grade security, and compliance. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Model ML is an AI workflow builder for financial services, enabling teams to automate client-ready Word, PowerPoint, and Excel outputs directly from trusted data, maintaining exact prior formats. Founded by brothers Chaz and Arnie Englander, the company is supported by an advisory board and collaborates with major financial institutions globally.
