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The Chicago Firm That Sold Wall Street's Playbook to Families Who Aren't Endowments
Two Chicago traders spent a decade turning hedge-fund tactics into a wealth business for families who aren't endowments. In 2026 they sold it - $5.6 billion later.
The Arkansas Lawyer Who Sold Investors a Number Instead of a Promise
A Fayetteville lawyer stopped selling upside and started selling downside. Cabana's whole pitch is a single, honest number: how much you should expect to lose before you make anything back.
The Man Who Sold United Capital Is Back to Buy a Piece of Everybody Else's
Joe Duran built United Capital, sold it to Goldman Sachs, and could have retired. Instead he raised $250 million to bet on the advisors most consolidators overlook - the ones who want a partner, not a buyer.
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.
FINNY
FINNY is a New York-based AI prospecting and marketing platform built for financial advisors and RIAs. Its proprietary F-Score engine scans hundreds of millions of North American households for 'money-in-motion' signals - job changes, inheritances, home purchases, retirements - to rank and match advisors with high-intent prospects, then automates personalized outreach across email, LinkedIn, and voicemail. Founded in March 2024 by AI engineers Eden Ovadia, Victoria Toli, and Theo Janson, FINNY raised a $17M Series A led by Venrock in December 2025, bringing total funding above $20M.
Cashmere
Cashmere is a Los Angeles-based AI company building a data layer for financial services. It started as an AI-powered client-acquisition platform that helps wealth management firms spot high-net-worth prospects at the moment they experience a wealth-triggering life event - an inheritance, a business sale, a liquidity event - and then matches those prospects with the best-fit advisor and automates personalized outreach. The product has since expanded into resolving fragmented customer records across disconnected banking systems into a single, continuously updated 'golden profile' enriched with internal and external signals. Founded by Farbod Nowzad and Eshan Govil, Cashmere raised a $3.6M seed round led by Canapi Ventures in September 2024 and counts RIAs, banks and wirehouses among its customers.
Datalign Advisory
Datalign Advisory is a Cambridge, Massachusetts fintech that uses an AI-enhanced platform to match everyday Americans with vetted, fiduciary Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) firms. Consumers answer a short questionnaire and get one personalized advisor match at no cost; advisory firms pay Datalign a referral fee for qualified introductions. Founded in 2022 out of the Link Ventures / Cogo Labs orbit, the company referred roughly $40 billion in assets to RIA firms in 2024 and raised $9M in total seed funding at a $75M post-money valuation.
Nevis
Nevis is a New York-based startup building the first unified AI platform for wealth management. Founded in 2024 by three former Revolut leaders, it automates the back-office work that eats up to 80% of a financial advisor's day - meeting prep, client follow-ups, account opening and ongoing service - so advisors can spend their time with clients instead of paperwork. The company emerged from stealth in December 2025 with $40M in total funding from Sequoia, ICONIQ and Ribbit Capital, and already supports RIAs managing more than $50 billion in assets.
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.