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Pave Finance
Pave Finance is a New York-based fintech building an AI-powered, institutional-grade wealth management platform that lets financial advisors customize, personalize and automate portfolio construction for their clients. Combining an alpha-scoring algorithm, an optimization engine and an integrated trading platform across 10,000+ global securities, Pave brings tools once reserved for hedge funds and ultra-high-net-worth desks to everyday advisors - offering direct indexing, tax-loss harvesting, values-based screens and concentrated-position management. In September 2025 the company closed an oversubscribed $14M seed round.
Auden Ehringer
Auden Ehringer is the Chief Technology Officer of Pave Finance and CEO of its technology subsidiary, Pave Labs. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer and computer scientist, he spent the early part of his career keeping some of the world's largest systems running - building Alexa sports features at Amazon Lab126 and serving as a Site Reliability Engineer on YouTube Discovery at Google. In 2023 he traded planet-scale infrastructure for the messier world of money, joining the New York fintech Pave Finance to build software that lets independent advisers automate and personalize portfolio management across thousands of client accounts. The platform he leads now helps oversee billions in assets, and in 2025 the company closed an oversubscribed $14M seed round.
M1
M1 is a Chicago-based personal finance platform that bundles investing, borrowing, and spending into a single app it calls 'The Finance Super App.' Built around customizable 'Pies' that let people design a portfolio of stocks and ETFs and automate contributions and rebalancing, M1 aims to give self-directed investors the kind of automated, low-cost money management once reserved for the wealthy. Founded in 2016 by Brian Barnes, the company has raised more than $300 million and surpassed $10 billion in assets under management.