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The Family Office That Put a 300-Client Ceiling on a $26 Billion Problem
Prime Quadrant started after one family discovered that a liquidity event can buy almost anything except unbiased advice. Now the firm serves more than 260 families, caps the roster near 300, and wants to manage the arguments around wealth as carefully as the assets themselves.
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.
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.
UBS
How a 163-year-old Swiss bank became the world's largest wealth manager - by absorbing the rival that nearly took the whole system down with it.
Way2B1
Way2B1 is a San Francisco-based SaaS company that builds a secure, cloud-based collaboration platform for family offices, wealth managers, and the ultra-high-net-worth families they serve. Positioned as a 'digital chief of staff,' the platform centralizes secure messaging, document management, asset tracking, approvals, signatures, and decision history into one command center, with an integrated AI assistant to automate routine tasks. Founded in 2015 by family-office veteran Wayne Osborne and former Palantir engineer Casey Ketterling, the company raised a $5.5M Series A in 2017 and helps offices coordinate complex lives with greater clarity, security, and auditability.
Eton Solutions
Eton Solutions is a wealth management technology company that builds AtlasFive, a cloud-native, AI-driven ERP platform purpose-built for family offices, multi-family offices, private equity firms and funds. Founded in 2015 by family office veteran Rob Mallernee, the platform unifies a family office's accounting, reporting, document management and workflow into a single source of truth, and now administers more than $1 trillion in assets for 800-plus families across 15 countries.