Funding Bullish 7

SAP-backed Conduct raises $60M to map and modify legacy code at cloud speed

Conduct's AI platform, now fueled by $60M from SAP and top VCs, bridges the gap between legacy ERP customizations and cloud-native agility. It ingests millions of lines of custom code and delivers instant impact analysis and auto-generated changes, critical for enterprises rushing to modernize their SAP landscapes.

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Key Takeaways

  • Conduct's AI platform, now fueled by $60M from SAP and top VCs, bridges the gap between legacy ERP customizations and cloud-native agility.
  • It ingests millions of lines of custom code and delivers instant impact analysis and auto-generated changes, critical for enterprises rushing to modernize their SAP landscapes.

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Conduct company Index Ventures company ICONIQ Capital company SAP company Creandum company Lucid Capital company Booom company AI technology

Key Intelligence

Key Facts

  1. 1Conduct raised $60 million in Series A funding, co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ Capital.
  2. 2SAP participated as a strategic investor, alongside existing backers Creandum, Lucid Capital, and Booom.
  3. 3The platform ingests millions of lines of custom code and configurations to map technical components to business logic.
  4. 4Users can query dependencies in natural language, and the AI generates code changes, tests, and implementation plans.
  5. 5The company is benefiting from an accelerating wave of enterprises migrating their SAP landscapes to SAP Cloud ERP.
  6. 6Conduct’s platform reduces the time to execute a business decision change from weeks or months to near real-time.
Metric
Time to implement business rule change Weeks/months Minutes/hours
Dependency analysis Manual code review across teams Automated mapping and queryable graph
Code changes and testing Hand-coded and manual QA AI-generated with automated tests

Analysis

Bull Case
  • Massive TAM in legacy modernization
  • Strong SAP partnership and migration tailwind
  • AI-first approach differentiates from static analysis tools
Bear Case
  • Concentration risk: heavily tied to SAP ecosystem
  • Enterprise trust in AI-generated code for mission-critical systems
  • Competition from well-funded DevOps AI startups and incumbents like ServiceNow

Analysis

SaaS companies have long struggled to integrate with the heavily customized on-premise ERPs that still run much of the global economy. Conduct flips the script: instead of replacing legacy systems, it makes them changeable as fast as any modern SaaS product. By mapping business logic directly to the underlying code, the platform turns a multi-month, consultant-heavy process into a self-service query and automated execution. For SaaS leaders, this signals a new class of tooling that could dramatically accelerate enterprise cloud adoption and reduce the friction of hybrid environments.

Conduct, an AI operating system for enterprise software understanding and modification, announced a $60 million Series A funding round on June 17, 2026. The round was co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ Capital, with strategic investment from enterprise software giant SAP, and participation from existing investors Creandum, Lucid Capital, and Booom. The massive early-stage raise underscores both the scale of the problem Conduct is tackling and the accelerating investor appetite for AI applications that address the deep-seated inefficiencies of legacy enterprise IT.

The round was co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ Capital, with strategic investment from enterprise software giant SAP, and participation from existing investors Creandum, Lucid Capital, and Booom.

Large organizations run on software systems—ERPs, CRMs, supply chain platforms—that have been customized tens of thousands of times over decades to embed unique business rules, approval workflows, and procurement logic. Changing even a single rule often requires weeks or months of manual code review, reverse-engineering of undocumented integrations, and lengthy handoffs between business analysts, developers, and external consultants. This bottleneck has become a critical drag on digital transformation, compliance, and competitive agility. Conduct’s platform ingests all custom code, configurations, dependencies, and integrations across these complex systems, then maps how every technical component connects to the underlying business logic it serves. Users can ask plain-language questions—like “What depends on this approval workflow?” or “What breaks if I change this field?”—and receive an instant dependency map. The AI then generates the necessary code changes, tests, and implementation work, collapsing the cycle from months to minutes.

The strategic involvement of SAP is particularly notable. As thousands of enterprises accelerate their migration to SAP Cloud ERP ahead of the end of mainstream support for legacy SAP systems, they face the daunting task of untangling decades of customizations. Conduct’s technology directly addresses that pain point, making it a natural fit for SAP’s ecosystem. SAP’s investment signals validation and likely channel partnership potential, while also raising the question of how closely Conduct will align with SAP’s product roadmap and whether it will remain neutral across other enterprise platforms.

The funding amount and investor pedigree reflect a broader market shift. The total addressable market for enterprise software modernization and AI-driven DevOps is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars, and startups that can automate the understanding of custom codebases are drawing comparisons to early automation of infrastructure management. Index Ventures and ICONIQ’s co-lead, alongside Creandum’s continued backing, underscores that top-tier firms see Conduct as a potential platform winner in a nascent but rapidly expanding category.

What to Watch

Conduct’s growth is reportedly accelerating, driven by the SAP migration wave. The company says thousands of enterprises are now pushing to make their critical software AI-ready, and its platform serves as a key enabler. However, the company will need to prove that its AI can handle the extreme diversity and scale of enterprise environments without introducing errors that could disrupt business-critical processes. The reliance on SAP’s migration cycle also creates a concentration risk; diversifying across other ERP ecosystems will be essential for long-term resilience.

Looking ahead, the Series A will fund product development and go-to-market expansion. Conduct may soon face competition from incumbents like ServiceNow, which are embedding AI into IT operations, or from other AI code analysis startups. Nonetheless, the company’s unique focus on business-logic mapping—rather than just code search—gives it a differentiated defense. If Conduct can execute, it could become the default layer that sits between enterprise business decisions and the messy reality of legacy code.

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"SAP-backed Conduct raises $60M to map and modify legacy code at cloud speed." SaaS Intelligence Brief, June 18, 2026. https://getsaasbrief.com/story/conduct-saas-60m-sap

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