About Ellis

“Institutional” should describe how you operate—not what you can afford.

Ellis gives private credit managers the trusted data, intelligent agents and operating leverage to build enduring firms.

$2T+

Global private credit AUM, growing at a double-digit CAGR

$50B

Cumulative customer and partner AUM

1,000+

Managers in the addressable universe

Our mission

Make institutional-grade operations available to every private credit manager.

Private credit scaled. Its infrastructure did not. Many managers still run critical workflows across spreadsheets, disconnected systems and manual processes. Ellis turns that fragmentation into one reconciled, source-verifiable book—and puts purpose-built agents to work across the workflows that slow firms down.

Larger vision

Private credit is where we begin.

Capital is the lifeblood of the economy. Our larger mission is to help it move with greater clarity and confidence to the businesses and entrepreneurs building what comes next.

Origin story

Built from a problem we lived.

At Cadre, Ryan saw how difficult it was to make timely, confident decisions when critical data lived across systems, spreadsheets and teams. Ellis was built to give more managers the operating foundation once reserved for the largest institutions.

Ryan A. Williams

Founder & CEO of Ellis · Founder of Cadre

“Nearly every fintech cycle for the last decade has gone after the front office. Almost nobody has touched what happens behind it, and that’s exactly why it’s still broken”

Josh Kopelman

Partner, First Round Capital

Backed by

First Round CapitalThrive CapitalHarlem CapitalWestbound Equity PartnersMercuryKearny JacksonWilshire Lane Capital645 VenturesExceptional CapitalSlow Ventures

How we build

PrecisionEvery number earns its way onto the screen.

Every material output should be reconciled, reviewable and traceable to source.

DepthBuild the layer beneath the workflow.

We solve the difficult infrastructure problems so every dashboard, agent, report and decision stands on data that holds.

Judgment stays humanAI accelerates. Accountable people decide.

Ellis reconciles, validates and flags what matters, while investment, valuation and operating decisions remain with the people responsible for them.

See Ellis on your book

See what a governed operating record looks like on your own book.

See how Ellis connects your loan tape, ties it back to fund admin and the GL, and produces the views your CFO and COO actually use.

Enterprise ready

Your fund’s data is never pooled with another customers’. Onboarding led by our engineers alongside your finance and ops teams.
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