As Mother Nature dumps a ton of snow on the northeastern urban corridor, we’d like to ask whether we’re a little bit out over our skis when it comes to artificial intelligence in wealthtech and fintech.
Welcome to Advisor Tech Talk, where AI is still the topic of the week—just look at how many of our biggest wealth management and financial advisor technology headlines have an artificial intelligence flavor in the column below.
But, to borrow a Grateful Dead lyric, maybe we’ve “had too much too fast.” Certain public-facing AI tools are testing the limits of regulation and common sense, according to a recent “e-Monitor” report from financial services researcher Corporate Insights. Some AI chatbots are making extremely specific recommendations that include actions like purchasing options contracts while simultaneously devolving into behavior that appears to be AI hallucinations, according to the report.
Keep in mind that these are live tools that people are already trusting their money to, not some sort of newfangled AI agent being tested in a laboratory-like environment.
In other news, New Jersey-based Condor Capital released another edition of its quarterly RoboReport, tracking roboadvisor performance and features for the fourth quarter of 2025. While we lightly follow the consumer-facing robo world here at Advisor Tech Talk, this report merits some mention because of the performance and costs of the higher-ranked platforms at the end of last year.
Over three- and five-year periods, the best platforms in the Robo Ranking in terms of performane and performance versus fees were offering approximately 1% of annual outperformance over benchmark portfolios, with advisory fees pegged at 0.35% or lower.
It seems to us that human wealth managers absolutely can still offer clients more bang for their buck—but, of course, not all advisors do.
Finally, we’d like to acknowledge the recent loss of our founder and publisher, Cindy Taylor. Cindy wasn’t just our boss—the lady who made sure the work was done and we were paid—but for the last decade she’s been a wonderful friend.
We only had the opportunity to meet face-to-face a few times, when we were both in the same office simultaneously (something that hasn’t really been possible in the post-COVID world) but we talked almost every day for most of that period.
During that time, she offered us precious advice, support beyond measure, and the most sympathetic of ears. She knew of all of the ups and downs of my professional life outside of our relationship, my family’s victories and tragedies, and never left us waiting long for our feelings to be acknowledged and responded to with kindness. Cindy always seemed to know how to say the perfect thing.
And though we’re all going to continue working and writing and publishing, she’s one of those people who are truly impossible to replace, because there isn’t another like her.
Let’s get to your headlines…
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AcquireUp
AcquireUp, a technology-first seminar marketing company for financial professionals, today announced the appointment of Jim Parkinson as Chief Technology and Information Officer. In this role, Parkinson will oversee Product Development, Data Sciences, IT Engineering, and IT Infrastructure, supporting the continued advancement of AcquireUp’s managed marketing services and proprietary technology platform, LeadJig.
Parkinson brings extensive experience leading large-scale digital initiatives and high-performing technology organizations across multiple industries. Most recently, he served as Chief Technology and Information Officer in the credit card processing industry, where he led product and engineering for processing and acquiring platforms. Previously, he was Chief Digital Officer and Executive Vice President of Digital Advertising at Valassis, where he oversaw enterprise technology strategy and the execution of digital media initiatives.
Earlier in his career, Parkinson spent more than two decades at Sun Microsystems, holding a variety of senior leadership roles, including Senior Vice President of Software Products and Cloud Computing Engineering. During his tenure, he led the team that built the world’s first utility computing platform. This work played a foundational role in the emergence of modern cloud computing.
Avantos
Avantos, an artificial intelligence (“AI”)-native operating system built to reimagine how financial institutions onboard and service clients, today announced it has completed a $25 million Series A funding round led by preeminent technology and software investment firm Bessemer Venture Partners (“Bessemer”). The round also attracted new strategic investors, including The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (“Guardian”), SEI® and Vanguard. This capital builds on the company’s $10 million seed round, which closed in September 2024 and was led by MIT-affiliated E14 Fund. The seed round also included M13, Mercer Advisors and Blue Collective.
Avantos intends to leverage the funding to support continued investment in its platform, including expanded AI agents as well as deeper integrations with custodians, CRMs, portfolio management tools, underwriting systems and policy administration platforms.
Avantos originated from a fundamental insight shaped by cofounders Bassam Chaptini and Rabih Ramadi’s extensive financial services experience. Many firms have clear strategic ambitions to manage and deepen client relationships, yet the fragmented platforms and functions they rely on today are not built to support that vision, hindering consistent execution across the client lifecycle.
Betterment
Rate, a leading fintech company, today announced a new partnership with Betterment, a trusted wealth and savings platform, that provides Betterment customers with exclusive mortgage incentives on their path to homeownership.
Through this initiative, all Betterment customers with at least $100,000 in assets on the Betterment platform may be eligible for discounted mortgage rates and closing cost credits when applying for a residential mortgage through Rate.
Today’s launch expands how Betterment helps more than 1 million customers grow their wealth and work toward financial goals. Rate brings 50-state licensing coverage, a high-volume underwriting platform and a digital mortgage experience designed to support customers through the application and closing process.
Capitalize
TIAA Wealth Management, a division of TIAA, today announced a partnership with Capitalize, to offer a new digital rollover experience for self-directed IRAs at TIAA. This new solution helps Americans find and consolidate left-behind retirement assets from former employers into TIAA IRAs with access to industry-leading lifetime income products.
The partnership helps address the growing challenge of left-behind 401(k) accounts driven by job changes, which now represent over $2 trillion in assetsi. The enhanced rollover process leverages Capitalize’s Rollover API to help individuals locate former employer-sponsored retirement accounts and consolidate eligible assets into a TIAA IRA.
Available now across desktop and mobile platforms, this solution simplifies the rollover process for participants, enabling individuals to consolidate and manage their retirement savings with greater ease.
Capitolis
Capitolis, the financial technology company, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire 20 Gates Management’s U.S. Secured Financing Platform. The acquisition, which is expected to close in the coming weeks, enables Capitolis to add U.S. secured financing to its Capital Marketplace, broaden its client base, and add veteran industry talent to its growing team.
20 Gates Management’s U.S. Secured Financing Platform has operated for more than 15 years and is supported by a broad base of prominent investors and banks. The acquisition brings an established roster of major financial institutions into the Capitolis Capital Marketplace network and adds seasoned team members from 20 Gates Management.
Capitolis continues to build momentum by expanding its product offerings, further strengthening its position as a trusted partner in driving efficiency and innovation across the capital markets. The company has also expanded its leadership team with recent key appointments, including Okan Pekin as President, Roy Saadon as Head of Market Development, Portfolio Optimization, Richard Schiffman as Chief Product Officer, Amol Naik as Chief Operating Officer, and Melanie Carucci as Global Head of Sales.
Compound Planning
Compound Planning, a leading digital family office committed to reimagining wealth management for the next generation, today announced strategic hires to strengthen key operational areas, in addition to adding new advisors to support continued client growth after surpassing $4 billion in assets under management in 2025.
The firm’s latest additions include Akin Adekeye as General Counsel, who brings more than two decades of technology-focused legal expertise from companies like Microsoft, Wolters Kluwer and Quickbase. True to Compound’s dedication to offering the combined value of high-touch advisory services and modern technology, Adekeye brings a background in software engineering to the role, adding both technical fluency and a practical, business-forward approach.
Jessica Faaborg has also joined the firm as Chief Compliance Officer, bringing deep investment-adviser regulatory expertise from compliance leadership roles at Facet and EQIS Capital Management. Known for her innovative approach to compliance, and embrace of AI, Jessica has a proven track record of developing robust, modern programs that align regulatory integrity with business growth. She has been an active member of the National Society of Compliance Professionals (NSCP) and the Investment Adviser Association (IAA), and has completed extensive IACCP coursework.
Envestnet
Envestnet, the leading Adaptive WealthTech company, today announced the appointment of Rich Friedberg as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The appointment reinforces Envestnet’s continued investment in enterprise resilience, secure-by-design innovation, and disciplined cyber governance across its $7.4 trillion platform.
Friedberg joins Envestnet with more than 25 years of cybersecurity leadership experience across financial services, SaaS, and national security sectors. He is widely recognized for modernizing complex financial and data platforms through transformation initiatives that embed cybersecurity into enterprise strategy, risk management, and product development from the outset.
Most recently, Friedberg served as Chief Information Security Officer at Live Oak Bank, where he embedded cybersecurity into governance, strategic planning, and digital product development while modernizing capabilities through AI-enabled and automation-driven approaches to enhance regulatory confidence, operational efficiency, and enterprise resilience. He previously held senior security leadership roles at Blackbaud and Capital One, serving as Vice President of Information Security and CISO for Capital One’s Card business.
Equity Services
Equity Services, Inc. (ESI), an independent broker-dealer and registered investment adviser, today announced the successful launch of Fidelity Managed Account Exchange® (FMAX) as the new technology foundation for its proprietary advisory platform, ESI Illuminations.
Completed in collaboration with Fidelity, the conversion of the advisory platform represents one of the most significant platform transformations in ESI’s history and underscores the firm’s continued investment in technology, advisory capabilities, advisor support and enhanced client value.
The launch of FMAX enhances the capabilities of the Illuminations platform by delivering a modern managed accounts framework, expanded investment flexibility, and deeper integration with Fidelity’s Wealthscape℠ ecosystem. The FMAX platform supports a wide range of advisory use cases, from turnkey model portfolios to highly customized managed account solutions.
ETF.com
ETF.com, the leading media and events platform dedicated to exchange-traded funds, today announced the launch of ETF Breakthru Connect, a virtual one-to-one meetings-only event taking place June 23–24, 2026.
ETF Breakthru Connect is designed to redefine how the ETF industry connects. The event will bring together more than 2,000 participants and facilitate over 20,000 double-opt-in, pre-scheduled 15-minute meetings across qualified individual investors, financial advisors, ETF issuers, trading desks, model portfolio teams, capital markets professionals, index providers, fintech companies, and financial services firms.
Unlike traditional events, ETF Breakthru Connect features no speakers and no content tracks. Instead, it focuses entirely on targeted 15-minute meetings powered by the same proprietary Breakthru Meetings technology that has delivered more than 100,000 double-opt-in meetings at Future Proof events since 2023. Participants can hold up to 20 curated meetings over two days, creating an efficient way to build relationships and drive real business outcomes.
Eton Solutions
Eton Solutions, the wealth management platform that manages over $1.3 trillion in assets for the world’s wealthiest family offices and firms, is expanding its business-to-business (B2B) model with the introduction of a direct-to-consumer (DTC) offering. For over a decade, the company’s technology has served as the digital nucleus for more than 960 families across 15 countries. Now, it’s setting out to fill a technology gap for a growing population of individuals who have too much money to manage on their own, but don’t meet the steep threshold necessary to warrant a fully staffed family office.
Family offices have traditionally been established by families with a minimum of $500 million of net investable assets. This makes them an exclusive target market. Deloitte estimates, for instance, that the number of single-family offices worldwide will reach just 10,720 by 2030. Meanwhile, the number of high-net-worth individuals–or, those with assets worth more than $10 million–topped 2.3 million in 2024. For Eton Solutions, this changing face of wealth inspired the launch of EtonAlpha™, which is powered by the same technology it developed for billionaires, but caters to individuals managing their own finances.
Now, the company is expanding its operational model to support this completely new type of client. Included in Eton Solutions’ own evolution is a new approach to direct-to-consumer sales and marketing that differs drastically from its historically private approach to working with wealth managers and advisors. This month, for instance, the company reimagined the next generation of wealth management as a virtual family office with a wide-reaching video campaign. The video depicts wealth owners viewing art, golfing and working, all while casually checking real-time valuations of homes, collections, cars, investments and other assets, all in one place, for the first time ever.
Foundation Source
Foundation Source, the leading provider of philanthropic software and solutions, today announced the addition of several seasoned industry veterans in key roles, marking a significant milestone in the company’s next chapter of growth.
The expanded team follows a period of strategic investment in Foundation Source’s operating model, technology platform and service capabilities, positioning the firm to serve an increasingly diverse and sophisticated client base that spans financial institutions, advisory professionals, and the clients they serve.
As part of this next phase, Foundation Source has named Phil Crist as Head of Enterprise Sales and Erin McFadden as Head of Strategic Partnerships, two senior leaders with deep experience serving institutional, advisory, and complex client relationships.
Graphene Platforms
Graphene Platforms Limited, Europe’s leading wealth management solution, today announced the launch of Alpha Investment Office’s new regulated investment platform, delivered through Graphene’s authorised infrastructure.
Alpha Investment Office now benefits from Graphene’s Wealth Gateway, a technology-enabled investment infrastructure designed to support seamless securities execution, integrated custody connectivity, and streamlined investment administration through a unified digital environment. At the core of the platform is a secure Private Data Cloud enabling real-time data management, automated reporting, and full lifecycle visibility across investment operations.
Graphene’s platform integrates directly into Alpha’s operating model, orchestrating transaction flows, connecting custody and execution counterparties, and enabling efficient, digitally driven investment operations. This architecture allows Alpha to focus on client strategy, adviser enablement, and growth, while investment activity is delivered through scalable, secure, institutional-grade infrastructure.
Hamachi.ai
Hamachi.ai (“Hamachi”), a regulatory-first, AI-powered Wealth Intelligence Platform built for investment advisors and asset managers, today announced that United Planners, a nationally recognized hybrid broker-dealer and registered investment advisor (RIA) known for its innovation in advisor technology, has selected the firm as its first enterprise generative AI partner. United Planners is the first broker-dealer to formally adopt Hamachi at the enterprise level, delivering compliant, advisor-ready AI at scale across the firm.
Under the agreement, United Planners has begun a phased introduction of Hamachi’s platform with advisors as part of a structured testing and feedback program. The initiative supports compliant email drafting, governed AI-assisted client communication, and an advisor chatbot built specifically for regulated wealth management workflows. As adoption expands, Hamachi will serve as the firm’s approved AI environment, and advisors seeking to use OpenAI or other external AI tools for business purposes will be required to do so through Hamachi’s compliant framework. Broader availability and additional integrations are planned for 2026.
As advisor interest in generative AI accelerates, many firms have struggled to deploy these tools compliantly. General-purpose AI platforms often present unacceptable risks related to client data exposure, supervision and regulatory compliance, limiting their viability in advisory firm use cases.
Hexure
Hexure, the leader in AI-powered sales automation solutions for the insurance and financial services industry, today announced the release of NIGO Resubmission, the first fully digital, end-to-end workflow designed to eliminate Not-In-Good-Order (NIGO) applications, one of the industry’s most persistent operational challenges.
NIGO applications have long stalled business, driven up costs, and created frustration for advisors and clients. While digital solutions have evolved, NIGO correction has remained stuck in manual, outdated processes. Hexure’s new solution replaces that burden with a transformational, fully digital workflow that eliminates friction, accelerates case movement, and gives real-time visibility at every step.
Hexure’s NIGO Resubmission sets a new standard for NIGO resolution by giving carriers a precise, streamlined workflow to annotate issues, unlock only the fields that require changes, request missing items, and provide advisors with clear, actionable guidance within Hexure’s FireLight platform. The workflow delivers real-time status tracking, audit trails, and field level validations, and integrates seamlessly with carrier operations. It also provides insights that strengthen compliance and improve long-term In‑Good‑Order (IGO) rates.
Jump
Jump, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for financial advisors and other financial services providers, today announced the close of an $80 million Series B funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners. The round includes participation from new investors F-Prime, Allianz Life Ventures (the venture capital arm of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America), TIAA Ventures and Peterson Partners, with additional investment from existing investors, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Citi Ventures, as well as angel investors Hans Tung, Ryan Anderson and Aaron Skonnard. This financing brings Jump’s total capital raised to $105 million, following its $20 million Series A funding round led by Battery Ventures last year.
Founded by repeat fintech entrepreneurs, Jump has rapidly become the fastest-growing wealthtech software application in industry history, scaling from zero to 27,000 advisors in less than two years since launch – and now adding more than 2,000 new advisors each month. Nearly one in ten U.S. financial advisors now uses Jump, making it a core platform across the industry – from independent advisors and enterprise Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) such as Focus Financial Partners, Integrated Partners and Merit Financial Advisors, to independent broker-dealers including LPL Financial, Osaic and Cetera, as well as financial institutions like Allianz Life and Manulife. Jump’s seven-time award-winning AI-native technology has processed a cumulative 183 continuous years’ worth of client meetings, completing millions of tasks for advisory, insurance and other financial services firms managing an estimated $12 trillion in assets for their clients.
The new capital will fuel Jump’s next phase of growth, building on the success of its category-defining AI meeting assistant for advisors and expanding into a comprehensive intelligence and AI orchestration layer tailored for modern advisory firms. Jump is widely recognized for its intuitive workflows, extensive integrations, ease of adoption by advisors and full compliance and configurability – making it ideal for enterprise deployment with robust compliance and data controls.
Jump
Jump, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for financial advisors and other financial services providers, today announced a strategic partnership with Focus Financial Partners (‘Focus’), an interdependent partnership of wealth management, business management and related financial services firms that collectively advise more than $500 billion in assets. The collaboration empowers Focus’s business divisions to streamline meeting workflows, turn client conversations into actionable insights and accelerate their use of AI-driven productivity tools.
The partnership delivers immediate, high-impact value to Focus’s advisory teams by reducing administrative burden and freeing up more time for meaningful client work. Jump’s ability to integrate directly with CRM and other wealth tech tools should reduce meeting prep time, improve data quality and support more automated workflows.
This announcement follows a year of significant momentum for Jump, including surpassing 20,000 advisors on its platform and securing notable partnerships with Osaic, LPL Financial, Cetera, eMoney, RightCapital and others—further advancing its mission to shape the future of advisor intelligence.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (Parametric), part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), announced today that Radius, its proprietary integrated multi-asset technology platform contributed to more than 19% asset growth and account growth in its first year, while helping deliver tax efficiency for clients. Radius, launched in January 2025, integrates capabilities across asset classes to facilitate a highly customized, seamless client experience beginning with account onboarding and extending through ongoing account management and reporting. It delivers cloud-native scale enabling advanced data analysis across hundreds of thousands of investment portfolios every day and powers higher trading volume.
Parametric provides customized solutions to both institutional and retail investors across a wide range of rules-based investment strategies including tax management, direct indexing, custom portfolio solutions and factor-based equities. Radius automates and scales these complex functions, which makes it easier to manage a large number of highly customized accounts that are tailored to each investor’s distinct needs and preferences.
Radius is positioned to continue increasing scale for both the fixed income tax optimized business, as well as the equity direct indexing business, thereby improving the advisor and client experience by reducing onboarding times and streamlining portfolio activities.
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management today announced that EquityZen, a leading private shares platform it acquired in January 2026, is immediately lowering transaction fees for both investors and shareholders on its marketplace. With Morgan Stanley’s expansive private markets ecosystem, EquityZen clients benefit from the scale gained from the acquisition.
The lower fees take effect immediately with buy and sell side fees reduced to 2.5% down from 5% for most transactions—cutting in half current standard fees. The industry-lowest minimums of $5,000 will continue. This fee reduction extends to EquityZen’s innovative “Express Deals” where an investor who previously invested in certain EquityZen funds can sell their fund interest to another investor on the EquityZen platform.
Morningstar
Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investing insights, has appointed Scott Brown as President, Direct Platform, effective March 2, 2026. Brown will lead Morningstar’s largest business segment and a core growth engine, with flagship products such as Morningstar Direct, Morningstar Data, and Direct Advisory Suite (the latest evolution of Advisor Workstation) and capabilities such as manager research and ratings embedded within it.
Brown brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling data platforms, modernizing legacy systems, and delivering technology-led and AI‑enabled products that support growth and operational excellence. He joins Morningstar from Experian, where he led a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across the Financial Services & Data and Marketing Services divisions, delivering technology-enabled growth.
While at Experian, Brown advanced the Ascend platform with AI product innovation, including the launch of Ascend Ops, an AI model deployment capability that was quickly adopted by over 50 institutions. He also oversaw the introduction of the Credit + Cashflow Score, the first combined credit score using consumer-permissioned banking data. Earlier in his career at Nielsen, he modernized its flagship audience measurement product line and spearheaded its cloud transformation.
Nexo
Nexo today announced its formal return to the United States market in 2026. The company’s official U.S. relaunch is being executed in partnership with regulated partners, providing a U.S.-compliant framework for the company’s investment and credit product offerings. Digital asset trading infrastructure is provided by Bakkt, a publicly listed U.S.-based digital asset platform purpose-built to support institutional risk management and compliance.
Nexo’s renewed presence in the United States follows a period of deliberate recalibration and reflects the company’s long-term commitment to operating in markets where regulatory frameworks are evolving, institutional standards are clearly defined, and innovation can be pursued responsibly. The relaunch represents a strategic alignment with clients and partners who prioritize resilience, strong governance, and disciplined risk management in the digital asset ecosystem.
Digital asset trading infrastructure is provided by Bakkt through a partnership that establishes a robust foundation and aligns Nexo’s global platform with U.S. regulatory expectations and best-in-class governance standards. This event marks a significant milestone in the company’s strategy to build an enduring digital wealth infrastructure rooted in trust, innovation, and long-term value creation.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen, the AI-connected suite of advisor products designed to showcase the value of advice in every client meeting, today introduced Nucleus, an agentic AI engine embedded directly into its advisor platform, positioning the tool as a workflow solution rather than a standalone chatbot. Nitrogen also unveiled upgrades to its AI-powered tax planning product, including client-ready PDF report generation. The announcements were made during the company’s Winter 2026 product release keynote at the Fearless Investing Summit.
Nucleus is designed to change what happens before, during, and after a client meeting. Instead of toggling between tools, manually entering data, or prepping reports late at night, advisors can now task Nucleus with real work inside Nitrogen. Setting risk targets, sending risk questionnaires, converting statements into portfolios, generating retirement income maps, drafting proposals, and preparing meeting talking points — all from within a single client profile.
Unlike standalone AI assistants, Nucleus operates inside Nitrogen’s structured data environment. Advisors remain in control, approving actions before they’re executed. The system is backed by SOC 2 and ISO-42001 compliance and more than a decade of data security investment.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen, the connected suite of advisor products designed to showcase the value of advice in every client meeting, and Betterment Advisor Solutions, an all-in-one custodial platform for modern RIAs, today announced a strategic partnership to provide financial advisors with an automated custodial data integration. This joint initiative enables advisors to sync client account data from Betterment directly into Nitrogen, powering more informed client meetings on portfolio risk, tax planning and retirement income planning.
This partnership addresses a primary hurdle for advisors: turning fragmented client data into simplified financial advice that clients can understand. For advisors who opt in, Betterment will share custodial account and position data with Nitrogen on an ongoing basis, allowing advisors to link client accounts directly to the Nitrogen product suite, where they can apply the Risk Number® and guide conversations fueled by custodial updates.
The integration is available today at no incremental cost to all mutual Nitrogen and Betterment Advisor Solutions customers. Advisors can activate the feed by following the setup process within their Nitrogen dashboard.
Orion
Orion and DPL Financial Partners today announced an expanded integration that gives advisors seamless access to advanced annuity and insurance solutions within the Orion platform. The integration launches with three of DPL’s powerful annuity comparison and analysis tools embedded directly into Orion Connect.
Historically, annuities have lived outside the core advisor workflow, forcing advisors to juggle separate systems, paperwork, and manual processes to evaluate and implement solutions. Through this integration within Orion Connect, advisors gain in-platform access to a marketplace of fee-based products from the industry’s leading carriers and the tools to seamlessly implement and manage them. Advisors can now address real-world planning challenges and drive organic growth from existing clients with modern products that are low-cost, often offer higher payout rates and greater liquidity, and align with a fiduciary advice model.
The tools are powered by DPL’s rules-based engine and extensive product database, providing recommendations aligned to client goals, client proposals, and the ability to launch digital applications.
Quinn
Quinn, the AI platform for fiduciary-grade financial planning and advice, today announced continued expansion of its team and product capabilities as demand accelerates across banks, fintech platforms, publishers, and wealth management firms.
As part of this expansion, Quinn appointed Lindsay Davis as Chief Marketing Officer. Davis brings more than a decade of experience building go-to-market teams and strategies for fintech and financial infrastructure companies serving regulated markets. She has held senior leadership roles at Tabapay and Atomic, where she led category positioning, organizational scale, and ecosystem partnerships during periods of rapid growth.
For decades, comprehensive financial planning spanning debt, savings, investing, retirement, and long-term goals,= has remained inaccessible to most consumers because traditional advisory models rely on manual, one-to-one labor that does not scale. The result is a persistent guidance gap affecting an estimated 170 million Americans, even as financial institutions face growing pressure to meet rising customer expectations within strict regulatory requirements and finite advisor capacity.
Sherpas
Sherpas today announced the close of its $3.2 million seed funding round, led by 1248, the family office of Mariner Wealth Advisors Founder & CEO Marty Bicknell, with major participation from AUA Private Equity Capital, GoHub Ventures, as well as strategic investors and advisory firms from across the wealth management industry. The round comes as advisory firms increasingly adopt AI to modernize how financial advice is analyzed, produced, and delivered.
Wealth management is entering a structural shift. Client expectations are rising, planning complexity continues to grow, and advisors face mounting pressure to deliver faster, more personalized recommendations. Yet much of the industry still relies on manual analysis, numerous fragmented tools and point solutions, and time-intensive plan preparation. Sherpas was built to change that operating model.
Rather than functioning as another planning application layered onto legacy systems, Sherpas serves as an AI-native operating layer for financial advice. From initial investor intake through scenario modeling and recommendation drafting, the platform automates the analytical burden, producing structured, explainable insights in minutes rather than days.
Turnqey
Turnqey today announced the official release of three integrated products designed to modernize how financial advisers, wealth managers, and institutions interact with cryptoassets: TAIP™, Qeychain™, and Turnqey Institute™. Together, these solutions establish a cohesive operating framework that addresses portfolio construction, operational infrastructure, and adviser education — three pillars historically fragmented across the cryptoasset ecosystem.
Turnqey’s allocation and portfolio intelligence platform (TAIP) introduces an analytical layer purpose-built for cryptoasset integration within diversified portfolios. Rather than treating cryptoassets as speculative satellites, TAIP enables advisers to evaluate exposures using risk-aware frameworks consistent with institutional portfolio management.
The system provides allocation modeling, volatility normalization, drawdown analysis, and cross-asset interaction insights. Advisers can stress-test portfolio scenarios, examine correlation dynamics, and assess the impact of cryptoasset allocations under varying market regimes.
Uptiq
Uptiq, the AI platform purpose-built for credit unions, today announced a strategic investment from Curql, a strategic investment fund backed by over 160 credit unions, as part of Uptiq’s recently completed $25 million Series B financing.
The strategic investment reflects Curql’s conviction in Uptiq’s ability to deliver production-ready AI solutions for credit unions and to help scale adoption of AI across lending, member servicing, compliance, and operational workflows. Uptiq’s platform is designed to integrate with existing core systems and meet enterprise-grade security, governance, and regulatory requirements.
As part of the Series B, Uptiq will expand access to Qore, its AI orchestration platform, enabling credit union innovation teams and developers to build and deploy AI-driven financial workflows more efficiently.
WealthFeed
WealthFeed, an AI-powered prospecting platform that enables financial advisors to grow their book of business, increase client retention, and expand wallet share, today announced a partnership with Steward Partners, one of the industry’s fastest-growing investment advisory firms with more than 300 advisors across the U.S. overseeing nearly $50 billion in client assets.
Steward Partners is a full-service, employee-owned firm offering comprehensive wealth planning, private banking, institutional consulting, and business solutions to investors, multi-generational families, and businesses. Among other achievements, it was ranked 9th on the 2025 Barron’s Top 100 RIA Firms list and named one of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies by Inc. for a fifth time.
Through an enterprise-level agreement, Steward is purchasing a 12-month subscription on behalf of 50 lead advisors, the first step in a broader rollout plan to help its advisors generate higher levels of organic growth and scale their practices.
Willow
Willow (TrustWillow.com), an award-winning WealthTech and advisor-matching platform built to connect women and families with personalized financial guidance, today announced a strategic partnership with HerMoney Media, the digital personal-finance content and coaching platform dedicated to leveling the financial playing field for women.
The partnership brings together two mission-driven platforms focused on helping women build financial confidence, grow wealth, and connect with personalized financial coaching and advice that fits their lives. The collaboration provides a seamless path from learning to action for HerMoney’s audience.
Willow plans to power advisor matching and referrals for HerMoney — a community comprising more than a half-million engaged, educated, mass-affluent women — connecting women who are seeking financial planning and advice with a network of vetted, fiduciary advisors who have completed Willow’s Advisor for Women™ Certificate Program. Members will also have access to Willow’s proprietary financial planning tools, including on-demand financial planning and self-directed investments for emerging investors. With women expected to control nearly 45% of US wealth by 2030 (McKinsey & Company), the need for accessible, fiduciary financial advice tailored to women has never been greater.
