Auquan the market leader in agentic AI for institutional finance, today announced it has been named a Cool Vendor in the Gartner® report Cool Vendors™ in Agentic AI for Finance (23 January 2026, Alex Levine, Twisha Sharma, Marco Steecker). This is Auquan's second Gartner Cool Vendor recognition, following its inclusion in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors for Agentic AI in Banking and Investment Services report (05 September 2025, Jasleen Kaur Sindhu, Sudarshana Bhattacharya, Jeff Casey). More than 70 enterprise customers, including 40% of the top 50 global financial institutions, now trust Auquan's AI agents in production.

Auquan has returned more than 100,000 hours to teams at some of the world's largest private markets firms, asset managers, and insurance companies. That's time they've reinvested in closing better deals faster, catching risks before they hit performance, and winning investor mandates.

Financial institutions are reaching the limits of AI tools that help with search, summarization or drafting. At the same time, pressure to scale analysis, monitoring and reporting without adding headcount keeps growing. The result: Firms are moving from AI pilots to production-grade agents that complete entire workflows on their own, with auditable, defensible outputs.

"We built Auquan because brilliant people in finance were spending too much of their time on work that shouldn't exist," said Chandini Jain, co-founder and CEO of Auquan. "They didn't need another tool to help them do work. They needed something that could actually do the work. The real validation comes from customers running our agents in production every day."

Most AI vendors in finance work at either the data layer or the processing layer. Auquan does both. Its agents pull from external public and subscription data sources, work with a firm's internal data, run the analysis, and deliver finished documents in the firm's own format. No other vendor brings all of this together. And because Auquan captures a firm's decisions, rationale and methodology over time and feeds that context back into every workflow, each output reflects the firm's own evolving knowledge.

Credit agents complete investment analysis and deal screening. Sustainability agents monitor for ESG risks across portfolios. Investor relations agents automate LP reporting and due diligence questionnaires. Every output is fully auditable and traceable to its underlying sources, assumptions and reasoning.

"Finance teams are drawing a clear line between AI that helps people do work and AI that actually completes it," Jain added. "Our customers see tenfold improvements because our agents own entire workflows. That gap between assisted and completed is widening, not shrinking."

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About Auquan

Auquan is the market leader in agentic AI for institutional finance. The company's AI agents autonomously complete complex workflows end to end, eliminating manual effort in investment analysis, risk monitoring, investor relations, compliance, and sustainability. Leading global institutions trust Auquan to handle work that previously consumed days of analyst time, enabling teams to focus on judgment and high-impact work. Auquan is headquartered in London with offices in New York and Bangalore and is backed by Peak XV, Neotribe Ventures, Episode 1, and Stage 2 Capital. Learn more at www.auquan.com and follow the company on LinkedIn and @auquan_.

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