estate-planning
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Bernstein Private Wealth Management
A research house that started by publishing uncomfortable truths now spends its days on the harder question wealthy families rarely say out loud: who gets it, and will the money outlast the people who made it.
Raymond James
A firm that started in a downtown St. Petersburg apartment now watches over $1.92 trillion - and it still measures itself one advisor and one client at a time.
Farther
Farther is a New York-based technology-driven wealth management firm that pairs human financial advisors with a proprietary 'Intelligent Wealth Platform.' Founded in 2019 by Taylor Matthews and Brad Genser, the company gives advisors an all-in-one digital ecosystem for financial planning, investing, tax optimization, and estate planning, while offering clients a family-office-style experience. After a $150 million Series D led by General Atlantic in 2026, Farther has grown to roughly $23 billion in recruited assets and ranks among the fastest-growing financial services firms in the United States.
Harness (Harness Wealth)
Harness (Harness Wealth) is a New York fintech that pairs software with a curated marketplace of vetted tax, financial and estate advisors, aimed at people with complex finances - startup founders, equity-holding employees, business owners, crypto investors and other 'builders.' It combines a vertical SaaS platform that powers collaboration between tax advisors and their clients, a marketplace to discover specialist firms, and consumer tools for tracking equity and net worth. Founded in 2018 by David Snider, the former CFO/COO of Compass, the company has raised roughly $40M and grew revenue by more than 1,500% between 2021 and 2024.
Autumn
Autumn is a New York-based deathcare startup that built what it called the world's first deathcare marketplace: a free platform that walks bereaved Americans through the tangle of tasks that follow a death - funerals, estates, probate, moving, grief - with step-by-step guides and a directory of more than 500,000 local providers like funeral homes, estate attorneys, financial planners and grief specialists. Launched in July 2022 with a $600,000 pre-seed round led by Bullish, the company made the process free for grieving families and earned revenue from providers who paid to be listed.
Legal Karma
Legal Karma is an Austin-based B2B legaltech company that gives banks and credit unions a white-label engine for offering wills, trusts, and powers of attorney directly to their account holders. It handles the document automation, 50-state attorney-reviewed legal infrastructure, compliance, member support, and marketing so a financial institution can stand up a profitable estate planning department in about four weeks - while keeping 100% of the revenue and ownership of the customer relationship.
Alix
Alix is a San Francisco wealthtech company that automates estate settlement, the slow, paperwork-heavy process of closing a person's affairs after they die. Pairing agentic AI with human Settlement Specialists, Alix handles 100+ tasks, from asset discovery and debt negotiation to probate filings and account closures, that typically take an executor up to 900 hours over 9 to 18 months. Founded in 2023 by Alexandra Mysoor and Hugh Tamassia, the company raised a $20M Series A in July 2025 led by Acrew Capital, with backing from Charles Schwab and Edward Jones Ventures.