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Tom Aley
Tom Aley is the co-CEO and co-founder of Aidentified, a Concord, Massachusetts wealth-network-intelligence platform that stitches together roughly 275 million consumer and 75 million professional US profiles so financial advisors can see who they already know who happens to be worth a lot of money. He runs the company with his twin brother Darr Aley, and it is not their first exit together: they built Generate (acquired by Dow Jones/News Corp in 2008) and backed NetProspex (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet). Before founding companies he was a corporate venture investor for Reed Elsevier's $8 billion media arm, an SVP at Dow Jones, and a board member on eleven companies. In June 2024, FactSet made a strategic $12.5 million Series B investment in the company.
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.
Farbod Nowzad
Farbod Nowzad is the co-founder and CEO of Cashmere, a Los Angeles fintech building an AI-powered data layer that helps financial institutions and wealth managers turn fragmented customer records into decision-ready intelligence. UC Berkeley's first data science graduate, he cut his teeth on anti-fraud machine learning at Lime and later founded the social audio startup Pludo before launching Cashmere in 2022 with high school friend and CTO Eshan Govil. In September 2024 the company raised a $3.6M seed round led by Canapi Ventures to attack a wealth industry sitting on a $90 trillion generational wealth transfer.