
After building a video startup, Mo Al Adham discovered that managing his money came with a surprising amount of homework. At Frec, he is turning that frustration into software - and learning how much explaining a simple app can require.
A billion-dollar valuation bought Vise attention. Building around the investments clients already owned gave financial advisors a reason to stay.
A portfolio can be personal. Running five million of them requires machinery. Vestmark has spent 25 years building the trading, tax and accounting systems that make those two ideas coexist.
After 25 years of buying and building the plumbing behind financial advice, Envestnet reaches roughly a third of U.S. advisors. Its new challenge is less about adding another tool and more about making a sprawling suite behave like one coherent machine.