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Saji Philip Bet on a Tutor Half a World Away
Before video calls became routine, Saji Philip backed a simple, awkward and durable idea: let one teacher in Kochi give one child in America her undivided attention.
aosphere sells the legal answer, minus the timesheet
A business born inside Allen & Overy turned recurring legal questions into an annual subscription. Now aosphere is buying the tools to carry those answers into the daily decisions of banks and asset managers.
Scott Wood Plays the Long Game
He built a wealth advisory firm around fewer conflicts, longer relationships and a patient idea he calls decading. Twenty-five years on, Scott Wood is still asking what lasts.
Elizabeth Pizzinato Knows the Most Valuable Brands Feel Personal
After helping Four Seasons turn hospitality into a digital relationship, Elizabeth Pizzinato brought the same close attention to private wealth - and kept a second life devoted to food, travel and the pleasures that resist optimization.
Newport Put the Family Balance Sheet Before the Portfolio - and Turned Private Markets Into a $6 Billion Pitch
Most wealth firms begin with a portfolio. Newport begins with the family - then builds an endowment-style mix of public and private assets around the life that money is supposed to fund.
Daniel Tauber and the Case for Fewer, Better Choices
For two decades, Daniel Tauber has worked where alternative investing meets explanation. His career - from communications and banking to Central Park Group, Macquarie and Blackstone - is a study in making complex choices usable.
The $6 Billion RIA Built to Make Complicated Money Feel Boring
Ashton Thomas sells a scarce luxury: one coordinated view of a wealthy family’s messy financial life. Its post-2023 expansion shows how a regional adviser can add offices, specialists and assets without sanding away the local teams clients hired in the first place.
The Boston Firm That Buys Into Everyone Else's Funds - and Manages $161 Billion Doing It
It started in 1982 as an insurer's venture arm with two employees and $200 million. Four decades later, HarbourVest sits on roughly $161 billion and a simple idea: you don't have to pick the winners if you own the whole board.
StepStone Group and the Business of Getting Into Rooms Most Investors Never See
A private markets firm started in 2007 now helps steer roughly $700 billion across private equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure - and it is quietly opening the door to individual investors.
The Firm That Built a Resale Market for Private Equity
Jeremy Coller spent 36 years arguing that private equity needed a second-hand market. Now that the market is worth trillions, EQT is paying up to $3.7 billion to own the firm that started it.
Vista Equity Partners Built a Factory for Better Software Businesses
Robert F. Smith made one unfashionably narrow bet in 2000: business software deserved its own investment machine. Twenty-five years, $103 billion in assets and more than 650 transactions later, Vista is testing whether that machine can make the leap from SaaS to agentic AI.
Morgan Stanley
The bank that decided predictable beats spectacular - and built a $9 trillion advice machine on top of a trading floor.
Goldman Sachs
For 156 years the firm at 200 West Street has been in the room when companies go public, countries borrow, and fortunes change hands. Here is how the deal machine actually works.
Ellevest
Ellevest is a New York-based financial company built by and for women. Co-founded in 2014 by former Wall Street executive Sallie Krawcheck and Charlie Kroll, it launched a gender-aware digital investing platform in 2016 designed around the realities of women's financial lives - longer lifespans, earlier salary peaks and the persistent pay gap. After selling its automated-investing (robo) business to Betterment in 2025, Ellevest now focuses on wealth management and financial planning delivered by an all-women team of advisors for clients investing $500,000 or more.
Raj Bhattacharyya
Raj Bhattacharyya is the CEO and Board Member of Robertson Stephens Wealth Management, a national registered investment advisor he has helped scale from $1.5 billion to $7.1 billion in assets under management since taking the helm in 2020. A Harvard-trained computer scientist turned three-decade Wall Street veteran, he brings rare fluency in both quantitative finance and enterprise technology to the RIA sector, where he is building what he calls a 'best-of-breed' wealth management platform. Before Robertson Stephens, he spent 17 years at Deutsche Bank leading FX and Latin American Markets businesses, plus stints at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, and founded early-stage fintech firm YY Capital.
Robertson Stephens
Robertson Stephens Wealth Management is an independent, fiduciary registered investment adviser headquartered in San Francisco. Reborn in 2018 from the iconic dot-com-era investment bank, the firm now manages roughly $8 billion in assets for high-net-worth families and institutions across 13 states, blending personalized advisory with a modern digital client interface.