It’s another week, and it’s another very active one for wealthtech—but not as active overall for wealth management as one might expect.
See, we’re in the middle of what once was the busy spring conference season for wealth management, where a series of regional and national meetings hosted by custodians, major RIAs, media companies, wealthtechs and others would have filled up industry news with reports on impactful keynotes, incisive surveys, cutting-edge planning techniques and volumes of announcements on new technologies and services.
I’m writing this week to tell you it isn’t happening anymore. There was a time when industry conferences were must-see events for journalists covering financial services and wealth management in particular, but in recent the volume of news and information coming out of these events has slowed to a trickle.
For the average journalist, they’re not worth covering anymore. Now, I know I’ve beaten this drum before, but over the past 12 months, with the paucity of news coming out of industry conferences, it’s really been brought home to me what a waste of resources these conferences have become.
For the most part, they’ve devolved to little more than vanity events for the firms and people sponsoring and running the conferences.
Furthermore, the value of conferences for wealth management practitioners themselves continues to be eroded by—you probably guessed it—technology. You don’t need to fly across the country and book an expensive room in a convention center hotel (or urban center) to pick up a few continuing education credits anymore, you can do it on your personal computer on your own time.
You don’t need to go to a conference to hear the thoughts of industry luminaries or keynotes from other walks of life—those thoughts are constantly being broadcast onto your screens by social media and the blogosphere (which, yes, is still a thing).
You don’t even need to go to a conference to meet with others in your profession and exchange ideas and support—that’s available online now as well, at a much lower price than a single conference entry fee.
You can now get all of the collaboration, education and access with ease, without the fees, travel—and the constant, annoying bombardment of marketing messages from conference sponsors and hosts.
To be frank, wealth management conferences deliver no value that can’t be accessed elsewhere for a lot less money and trouble.
Given my experience attending these conferences, I can say that the decline in industry conferences began well before Covid took its toll on in-person events across the entire world, in every economic sector.
Advisors and firms were already wising up to the waste of time and money of industry conferences in the 2010s. Over the decade, I witnessed conference attendance gradually sag, which contriibuted to an erosion of quality in content and a significant drop in the star power of keynote speakers.
Maybe Covid didn’t kill the industry conference altogether, but it certainly was a strong push in what hopefully will be a better direction.
Let’s get to our headlines.
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Advisor360
Advisor360°, a leading provider of integrated technology for wealth management firms, is launching its first customer relationship management (CRM) solution for independent registered investment advisors (RIAs). Called Tandem, the new multi-custodial product is an enhanced CRM featuring a state-of-the-art reporting engine, secure document management vault, financial planning integrations and a modern client-facing portal.
This cloud-based offering from Advisor360° is built specifically for independent RIAs. In addition to its enhanced CRM functionality, Tandem equips RIAs with secure, AI-powered tools that automate financial workflows and address regulatory requirements in a seamless solution. The new tool leverages Advisor360°’s industry-leading technology platform and its recent acquisition of Parrot AI.
Tandem automates and synchronizes client record-keeping, financial planning and reporting – reducing or eliminating manual, administrative work for the advisor while transforming client interactions with AI-powered insights and next best actions. Its compliance-ready design ensures every action is logged and auditable so firms can meet SEC and Reg BI requirements.
Apex Fintech Solutions
Apex Fintech Solutions Inc. (“Apex”), an innovation launchpad for the global investment ecosystem, and OneVest, a leader in wealth management technology, have entered into a strategic collaboration aimed at offering modern technology that can help growth-minded companies build unique digital investor experiences or fill gaps in their current tech stacks.
This alliance combines the flexible, composable structure of the OneVest platform with the built-for-scale custodial platform from Apex AscendTM. Together, we offer our clients a wider array of flexible technology, giving them more ways to modify, replace, or add new modules without disrupting their entire systems. Furthermore, by integrating the OneVest solutions into Apex Ascend, we expand Ascend’s back-office-focused capabilities by adding a configurable front-end experience for advisors and investors, along with a mobile app.
Through this collaboration, Apex clients will be able to access OneVest’s versatile product offerings directly through Apex Ascend, enhancing features and workflows with a minimal lift from their in-house developers.
BetaNXT
BetaNXT, a leading provider of wealth management technology solutions with real-time data capabilities and an enhanced advisor experience, has officially rolled out BetaNXT CastX, an innovative solution for efficiently managing corporate actions from end to end—and maximizing the value that investor communications can provide.
The introduction of BetaNXT CastX marks the latest milestone in BetaNXT’s ongoing efforts to streamline workflows for corporate actions. Developed in response to feedback from brokers and advisors, it addresses common issues such as manual data entry errors, complex communication chains, and delayed notifications. Corporate actions, which include tender, exchange and conversion offers, are actions taken by publicly traded companies that have a material impact on the company and its shareholders. Historically, many financial institutions have relied on manual processes to manage corporate actions, exposing them to operational risks, errors, and delays. BetaNXT CastX automates the entire corporate actions lifecycle—from announcement data sourcing to DTCC submission to tax reporting—reducing risks, minimizing mistakes, and improving transparency and efficiency.
BetaNXT CastX is part of BetaNXT’s broader connected ecosystem of solutions—including DataXChange, artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, and a cloud-first deployment model—which enables the seamless sharing of data across multiple systems. Powered by Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, DataXChange brings together internal and external inputs to simplify the exchange of data for wealth management firms and their partners, and optimize what data can do for their businesses and clients. BetaNXT CastX has been built on DataXChange, so that advisors at wealth enterprises, and the investors they work with, can comprehensively view the corporate actions they need to take note of, and understand the impact those actions may have on investors’ portfolios.
Conquest Planning
Conquest Planning Inc. (“Conquest”), a technology platform modernizing financial planning with customized and convenient advice, today announced a strategic partnership with CI Wealth, the Canadian wealth management division of CI Financial. Through this collaboration, advisors at CI Assante Wealth Management (“Assante”), CI Private Wealth (“CIPW”) and Aligned Capital Partners will gain access to Conquest’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered financial planning platform, which is making customized and convenient advice more accessible for all consumers.
Conquest’s Strategic Advice Manager (SAM) leverages AI to enhance personalized financial plans that evolve with clients’ needs in real time. SAM helps advisors model various financial scenarios, presenting clients with potential outcomes of different strategies for more informed decision-making. By considering multiple factors and possible trade-offs, SAM suggests optimized strategies that balance immediate needs with long-term objectives. With SAM handling complex calculations and data analysis, advisors can focus on client interaction and strategic discussions instead of manual processes.
Effective immediately, all Assante advisors will gain access to Conquest’s platform, which includes two key components: an advisor-led offering that allows advisors to enhance and present financial plans directly to clients, and a solution for the Assante Wealth Planning Group.
Ensight
Ensight (San Diego), the leading sales enablement platform for annuity, life and long-term care (LTC) insurance carriers and distributors, has announced a strategic platform integration partnership with Luma Financial Technologies ( LUMA), a global provider of structured products and insurance solutions. Through this technology partnership, Ensight and Luma have developed a seamless integration, introducing the first unified annuity, life, and LTC quoting capability within Luma. Ensight’s digital, interactive “Sales Story” platform will also be fully connected into Luma, enabling insurance carriers to provide new digital product marketing experiences to advisors, as well as Luma distribution partners to build and deploy modern digital sales concepts using Ensight’s underlying platform technology.
Ensight’s multi-carrier quoting API is now one of the many powerful components within Luma, allowing financial professionals to seamlessly illustrate life insurance and LTC products while accessing Luma’s full range of solutions. Financial advisors will also be able to communicate with their case design team using a bi-directional Life and LTC quoting integration with Ensight’s market leading illustration platform, Intelligent Quote.
Today, it is more important than ever that financial professionals can effectively position the holistic protection and retirement planning benefits of annuities, life insurance and long-term care solutions for the client. Historically, financial professionals have often relied on ledger-based PDF illustrations and static sales concepts. In a world of interactive, digital financial planning software, 401K “apps” and personal investment platforms, financial professionals are increasingly seeking a solution that modernizes the advisor-client insurance discussion and engagement.
Envestnet
Key Wealth, the wealth management business of KeyBank and Envestnet, a leading provider of integrated technology, intelligent data, and wealth solutions, announced today that they have expanded their multi-year relationship. This collaboration will deliver Key Wealth advisors a comprehensive next-generation wealth management platform, equipping them with cutting-edge tools to help clients navigate increasingly complex financial needs.
Through this enhanced relationship, Key Wealth advisors will gain full access to Envestnet’s industry-leading wealth management technology and data-driven solutions, enabling a more personalized and holistic approach to financial planning, investment management, and client engagement.
FIDx
Fiduciary Exchange LLC (FIDx), a leader in the drive to revolutionize the delivery of insurance solutions, today announced that Bill Crager, former CEO of Envestnet, has joined its Board of Directors. Crager brings decades of experience in financial services and technology to FIDx, where he will provide strategic guidance as the company continues to expand its reach and impact.
The addition of Crager to the FIDx Board of Directors marks a noteworthy milestone in the company’s eight-year journey. His leadership, industry knowledge, and technology expertise will be instrumental in guiding FIDx’s strategic direction and driving continued growth, according to Rich Romano, CEO of FIDx.
Crager has been a prominent figure in the wealth management industry for more than 20 years. He co-founded Envestnet in 1999 and served as CEO from 2019 to 2024, leading the company through a period of growth and transformation. Under his leadership, Envestnet became a leading provider of integrated technology solutions for financial advisors, with a focus on data aggregation, financial planning, and investment management. Envestnet is an important strategic partner and investor in FIDx, which is available through the Envestnet platform and gives financial advisors access to annuity products. His expertise in developing holistic financial planning offerings and leveraging data aggregation to enhance the advisor-client experience will be particularly valuable to FIDx.
Flex
Flex, the fintech company that empowers business owners to automate their back offices and grow, today announced it has raised $225 million in equity and debt funding to accelerate the buildout of its payments infrastructure and personal finance software for business owners. The capital raise includes a $25 million equity round led by Titanium Ventures, with participation from Companyon Ventures, Florida Funders, MS&AD Ventures, AAF Management and First Look Partners, and a $200 million credit facility from Victory Park Capital. Yash Patel, General Partner at Titanium Ventures, will join Flex’s Board of Directors.
Many businesses do not have sufficient time, resources, or personnel to efficiently handle back-office functions. Meanwhile, targeted solutions are often fragmented and piecemeal. Flex provides a financial ecosystem that bundles payment automation, expense management, net 60 credit cards and banking.
The capital raise will support the acceleration of Flex’s payments ecosystem, particularly its AI-powered AP Automation, which today, alongside credit, debit, and B2B payments, is processing over $1 billion in annual total payment volume. The funding will also be used to build out Flex’s consumer arm, which will allow business owners to manage their personal finances with the same power, control and seamless user experience as they do for their businesses.
Forest Systems
Forest Systems, a leading provider of integrated accounting software solutions for family offices and accounting firms, and Summitas, a premier secure client portal and digital vault provider, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing security, compliance, and operational efficiency for high-net-worth families and their advisors.
This partnership will integrate Forest Systems’ comprehensive financial reporting platform with Summitas’ secure digital collaboration tools, enabling wealth management firms to seamlessly manage complex accounting tasks, protect sensitive information, and streamline client communications.
Summitas, known for its secure communications and document-sharing capabilities, will integrate Forest Systems’ accounting features to offer enhanced financial management tools, such as an integrated general ledger and portfolio tracking. This collaboration aims to provide clients with an intuitive yet secure experience when accessing critical financial documents, managing estate plans, or communicating with advisors.
Foundation Source
Foundation Source, the nation’s largest provider of cloud-based charitable giving solutions, today announced the appointment of Suzanne van Staveren to the Board of Directors. Ms. van Staveren is the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer of Edelman Financial Engines, where she works with the executive team to develop the firm’s long-term growth strategy and financial objectives.
The announcement follows the recent Foundation Source board appointments of other notable industry veterans, Mark Casady, Pamela Norley, and Chip Roame. It also comes on the heels of Foundation Source’s acquisitions of Vennfi, the fintech powering donor-advised fund sponsor Charityvest, and PG Calc, the leader in planned giving software and services, which enabled the company to become the only provider of a turnkey platform empowering wealth managers to offer a comprehensive set of philanthropic solutions.
Ms. van Staveren brings more than 20 years of leadership experience and a track record of growing and building organizations within the financial services industry. Before joining Edelman Financial Engines in 2022, Ms. van Staveren was the CFO of the Personal and Financial Management Group within Goldman Sachs. She also led Ayco’s Sales Strategy and Execution and Corporate Benefits Specialists teams. She was COO of the Americas institutional business for Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to that, Ms. van Staveren worked at Fidelity Investments and AXA in a variety of functions, including developing and executing strategic plans, implementing new financial tools and processes, optimizing sales channels, improving product roadmaps, and working with clients.
FutureVault
FutureVault, the leading provider of AI-powered Digital Vaults and pioneer of the Client Life Management Vault™ for financial institutions has successfully raised US $3 million of equity capital bringing the total raised since inception to US $31 million.
Founder & Executive Chairman G Scott Paterson and CEO Daniel Kenny both participated in the financing along with several existing shareholders and selected new investors. This latest investment underscores the excitement behind FutureVault’s mission to transform document and data intelligence for financial services.
FutureVault’s digital vault platform provides a material value proposition for a wide range of stakeholders and constituents, including advisors and their clients as well as management, operations and compliance executives enabling standalone value as well as enterprise-wide value as a result of greater internal connectivity, client centric data and document intelligence and workflow efficiencies.
Interactive Brokers
Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, announced the nomination of Lori Conkling as an independent director of the firm.
Ms. Conkling will bring a wealth of knowledge to Interactive Brokers. As Head of TV & Film Licensing at Netflix, she oversees content acquisition and business development for their ad-free and ad-supported platforms. Before joining Netflix, she held leadership positions at Google, including Global Head of TV, Film and Sports for YouTube and YouTube TV.
Ms. Conkling has also served as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Digital Enterprises at NBCUniversal, Executive Vice President of US and Canadian Distribution at A+E Networks, and Vice President of National Accounts for Disney and ESPN. She began her career with Accenture, where she analyzed and developed corporate strategies for publishing, film, and telecommunications companies.
Jump
Jump, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for financial advisors and other financial services providers, today announced its approval as an official technology vendor for Osaic, Inc. (“Osaic”), one of the nation’s largest providers of wealth management solutions. This strategic relationship brings Jump’s advanced AI platform to Osaic’s expansive network of wealth management professionals, empowering them with tools designed to streamline workflows, strengthen compliance and significantly reduce administrative burdens.
Jump offers several key benefits to Osaic’s network of financial professionals. Streamlined workflows allow advisors to spend more time building client relationships and less on manual data entry, while AI-powered note taking delivers accurate documentation, reducing regulatory risk. Additionally, by minimizing administrative tasks, Jump supports scalability—allowing financial professionals to efficiently manage growing client bases without increasing their administrative workload. This partnership reinforces Jump and Osaic’s shared commitment to empowering advisors with advanced technology that supports heightened productivity and creates a more efficient, client-focused experience.
Jump has quickly emerged as a leader in AI-driven efficiency for financial advisors, recently earning the highest market share results in the latest T3 survey’s Transcription/Text Capture Services and Onboarding and Proposal Generation Tools categories compared to other advisor AI tools. In addition, the platform received ‘extraordinary’ high user satisfaction ratings. Since its founding in 2023, Jump has quickly established itself as an essential productivity tool for advisory firms of all sizes—ranging from solo practitioners to large enterprise-level registered investment advisors (RIAs) and independent broker-dealers (IBDs). The company recently closed a $20 million Series A funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $24.6 million.
martini.ai
martini.ai, the leading AI-driven credit intelligence platform, has unveiled its latest innovation, Scenario Builder, a powerful new feature that allows financial professionals to model economic events and stress test portfolios in real time.
Market risks are not only increasing in number but also growing in their potential to disrupt portfolio performance at an unprecedented scale. Global credit markets have seen heightened volatility due to rising interest rates, geopolitical instability, and rapid shifts in economic policy. Traditional risk assessment methods often fail to capture the real-time interconnectedness of these macroeconomic forces, leaving credit investors exposed to unexpected downturns.
Scenario Builder enables private credit investors, asset managers, and lenders to stay ahead of these challenges by translating uncertainty into actionable insights, allowing them to stress test portfolios and adjust risk exposure before market shocks occur.
Motive Partners
Motive Partners (“Motive”), a specialist private equity firm focused on financial technology, and Apollo (NYSE: APO) today announced the launch of Lyra Client Solutions Holdings, LLC (“Lyra”). A spin-out from Apollo’s client services division, Lyra offers a differentiated client-servicing solution, delivering technology and operations capabilities that enhance efficiency and the client experience in both the institutional and wealth channels. Motive and Apollo have both invested capital in the new company to support the stand-up and commercialization of the business.
Private markets continue to see rapid growth fueled by product innovation, shifting portfolio allocations and a growing investor base. In meeting this demand, alternative asset managers are expected to not only deliver top-tier investment products and returns, but to also uphold superior service levels that are increasingly difficult to sustain amid cost and efficiency pressures. As a standalone client service solutions business, equipped with leading operations talent supported by next-generation technology, Lyra provides scalable, white glove services that investors demand, including pre-trade, onboarding, and post-trade capabilities.
As part of the launch of the new company, Eileen Sivolella has joined Lyra as the Board’s Chair and Independent Director. Most recently, Sivolella served as Managing Director and Global Chief Financial Officer of Advent International, a private equity firm with $90 billion in assets under management, from 2009 until her retirement in 2022. Prior to Advent, she was the Global Chief Financial Officer of Bain Capital and served on the firm’s key committees, including the valuation, operational audit, and compensation committees. Before that, she was a Partner at Deloitte and a founder of its private equity practice in New York.
Nebo Wealth
Nebo Wealth, the award-winning asset allocation and portfolio design platform from the global asset manager Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co, LLC (GMO), today announced the launch of its Enterprise Solutions Platform. This innovative offering delivers scalable, goals-based investing tools to help firms provide personalized portfolios for every client. As part of this launch, Nebo Wealth introduces two powerful features: a white label portfolio construction engine and a Goals-Based Model Selector. Together, these tools enable enterprises to offer tailored solutions under their own brand, streamlining the process of aligning investments with client goals at scale.
Built with open architecture, the Enterprise Solutions Platform helps firms stay ahead of industry trends and better serve advisors and clients. Nebo Wealth’s approach connects a client’s financial plan directly to their investment portfolio through a comprehensive Investment Policy Process.
This method overcomes the limitations of traditional risk scoring by incorporating multiple dimensions of a client’s financial profile, including goals, time horizons, cash flows, and risk tolerance. A key focus is optimal risk alignment, ensuring clients are neither underexposed nor overexposed to risk, maximizing the likelihood of achieving their goals.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen (formerly Riskalyze), the leading developer of integrated risk tolerance, proposal generation, investment research and planning software for advisors, today announced the launch of Nitrogen Risk Engine. The API-driven product allows software development and integration teams at financial institutions (including banks, insurers, custodians, asset managers, investing platforms and wealth managers) to incorporate the industry-standard Risk Number and proprietary, individual securities-level portfolio analytics into their own platforms.
Available immediately, Nitrogen Risk Engine is designed by industry-specific, world-class engineers to deliver the product development and time-to-market experience a product engineering team would deeply appreciate. The API-driven solution delivers rapid, secure and seamless access to incorporate the Risk Number, Riskalyze GPA methodology and underlying portfolio analytics into advisor and client-facing websites and software applications.
Practifi
Practifi, the leading CRM purpose-built for wealth management firms, today announced its commitment to integrating artificial intelligence (AI) across its platform, empowering financial advisors to enhance client relationships, streamline operations and drive new levels of growth. This strategic move reinforces Practifi’s vision of providing a cutting-edge CRM solution that anticipates the future needs of the wealth management industry, positioning Practifi as the hub of meaningful, data-driven client relationships.
Practifi’s AI strategy will make advisory firms more efficient, responsive and effective by enabling real-time data analysis, automating content creation and triggering workflow actions without manual intervention. AI features will be introduced based on practical benefits, increasing accuracy and improving scalability, with new capabilities rolling out over time.
These features align with Practifi’s core AI pillars: boosting efficiency through automation, enhancing client personalization with tailored insights and strengthening client management with intelligent recommendations.
SMArtX Advisory Solutions
SMArtX Advisory Solutions (“SMArtX”), a leading innovator in managed accounts technology, has announced the addition of 5 new strategies from five leading asset management firms to its Manager Marketplace. SMArtX’s continuously growing platform now offers 1,547 strategies from 323 distinguished asset management firms.
Newcomer Vulcan Value Partners added a focus strategy. Argent Capital Management, Main Management, NorthCoast Asset Management, and Weatherstone Capital Management also expanded their current offerings to respectively include focused small cap, hedged equity, equity income, and tactical short-term bond strategies.
Syntax Data
Syntax Data, a leading provider of direct indexing technology, today announced a collaboration with TradePMR, a leading brokerage and custodian services provider for independent financial advisors, which will provide TradePMR users access to state-of-the-art index and portfolio development capabilities. As part of the integration, TradePMR is adding the Syntax Direct custom index creation platform to its tech stack, making it available to all TradePMR users.
The partnership puts TradePMR at the leading edge of portfolio construction innovation in the rapidly growing direct indexing market. Financial advisors using the TradePMR platform are now able to offer their clients an endless array of custom indices at a minimal price point. The functionality of Syntax Direct allows TradePMR advisors to create, manage, and market highly customized portfolios at scale, giving them all the benefits of a disciplined and structured index investment.
Wealth.com
Wealth.com, the industry’s leading end-to-end estate planning platform, today introduced Scenario Builder, a powerful new estate planning modeling tool designed to give financial advisors, wealth planners and estate attorneys insights into the potential impacts of various strategies on a client’s estate. As a major enhancement to wealth.com’s already robust platform, Scenario Builder delivers real-time calculations of estate tax implications, incorporates future financial events and enables advisors to modify assumptions over time.
Serving more than 750 wealth management firms, wealth.com continues to set the standard for estate planning innovation. To support its continued growth, the company recently appointed Kathy Wunderli as head of private wealth, strengthening its legal team and accelerating the development of products that empower advisors serving HNW and UHNW clients—including Scenario Builder.
Wealthbox
Wealthbox, the highest-rated CRM software for financial advisors, today announced a new enterprise CRM agreement with Perennial Financial Services, one of the fastest-growing Hybrid RIA firms at LPL Financial over the past four years based on net new asset growth.
The enterprise agreement makes Wealthbox available to 40+ licensed advisors and support staff at Perennial, enabling them with a modern CRM solution to streamline operations, enhance collaboration, and strengthen client relationships.
Perennial, recognized for its client-first philosophy and commitment to integrity, transparency, and excellence, selected Wealthbox for its intuitive design, powerful workflow automation, and seamless integration with key financial technology platforms. Implementing Wealthbox will support Perennial Financial Services advisors in delivering personalized, independent financial guidance while increasing operational efficiency.
Wealthbox
Wealthbox, the highest-rated CRM software for financial advisors, announced a two-way sync integration with ClientWorks, LPL Financial’s advisor technology platform. This powerful integration allows LPL-affiliated advisors to sync client data between Wealthbox and ClientWorks, streamlining workflows and ensuring client information remains accurate and up-to-date across both platforms.
The ClientWorks and Wealthbox two-way sync integration provides real-time syncing of contact information, reducing administrative overhead and eliminating the risk of inconsistencies in client data. Whether adding new clients or updating existing records, the data is instantly reflected across both systems, keeping everything organized and up to date. Advisors can now manage their client relationships more efficiently and focus on providing more personalized service to their clients. Advisors can also see client account data from ClientWorks in Wealthbox, including account number, title, type, class, and value, and use single sign-on capabilities between ClientWorks and Wealthbox.
YCharts
YCharts, a leading investment research and client engagement platform trusted by financial professionals across North America, today announced the launch of AI Chat, a next-generation AI-powered tool designed to enhance research workflows, improve efficiency, and drive better client engagement.
YCharts continues to deliver innovative solutions that help firms grow smarter. AI Chat builds on this momentum, providing financial professionals with faster access to insights and streamlined workflows.
With AI Chat, users can type a prompt into the search bar or navigate to the AI Chat tool to receive real-time responses powered by indexed financial databases. Users can refine queries by selecting specific data sources, including YCharts Data, SEC Filings, Financial News, and proprietary research from enterprise partners. By consolidating multiple data sources into a single interface, AI Chat helps professionals find answers faster and focus more on strategic decision-making.
Zeplyn
Zeplyn, the AI-native workflow intelligence platform for wealth management firms, today announced the launch of a new suite of practice management capabilities designed to improve operational efficiency and unlock growth opportunities. Built on AI, the new features leverage insights captured during client meetings and extend them into new workflows that give firms visibility into actionable trends and streamlines the client engagement experience even more, all while maintaining compliance requirements.
Reinforcing the company’s commitment to rebuild the wealth management experience from an AI-native perspective, the new suite introduces more than 15 new features, including an advisor hub, advanced meeting preparation and compliance checklists.
Zocks
Zocks, a privacy-first AI platform for financial advisors that analyzes conversations with clients to capture key information, and integrates with key business and records systems to accelerate workflows, today announced it has raised a $13.8 million Series A round led by Motive Ventures with participation from existing investor Lightspeed Venture Partners. Additional investors in the round include Expanse Venture Partners, Entrée Capital, and 14Peaks. The investment will accelerate Zocks’ mission to empower advisory firms with data-driven insights while maintaining the personal touch essential to client relationships.
Since launching in early 2024, Zocks has experienced explosive growth, onboarding over 1,000 advisory firms to its platform. The company has established partnerships with industry-leading fintech platforms Wealthbox, Redtail, and Practifi, as well as notable enterprise clients and partners that include Carson Group, Osaic, RFG Advisory and Cambridge Financial Group.
The funding will drive Zocks’ rapid expansion across product development, team growth, and go-to-market efforts. Over the next 12 months, the company plans to enhance its AI capabilities by further developing its AI agents that automate time-intensive workflows, such as email responses, account applications, and form processing. Zocks will also introduce advanced analytics features, enabling firms to surface insights across their entire book of business. Additionally, the company plans to explore expansion into the European market.
