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Danyal Ozduzenciler’s expensive education
Before Capsa AI, Danyal Ozduzenciler traded private equity for a bicycle and a fashion startup that failed. His next company grew from the work he already knew - and the investment knowledge he wanted firms to stop losing.
Danyal Özdüzenciler
Danyal Özdüzenciler is the co-founder and CEO of Capsa AI, a London- and New York-based startup building what it calls an AI operating system for the private capital industry. A former private equity and investment banking professional with Turkish-German roots, he founded Capsa AI in 2024 with Callum Downie after a first failed startup taught him hard lessons about grit. In June 2026 the company raised an $18m Series A, bringing total funding to about $20m, on the back of 14x year-on-year revenue growth and a 100% customer renewal rate.
Capsa AI
Capsa AI is a London- and New York-based startup building an 'AI operating system' for private capital. Its platform indexes a firm's fragmented institutional knowledge - deal memos, emails, CRM notes and documents - and layers agentic AI across the fund lifecycle, from sourcing and due diligence to portfolio monitoring and back-office work. Founded in 2023 by Danyal Ozduzenciler and Callum Downie, the company raised an $18M Series A in June 2026 (about $20M total) to help private equity and private credit firms move faster and surface insights with full source traceability.