Ctrl Alt
Corporate Round in 2025
Ctrl Alt is an alternative investment platform established in 2020 by Matt Ong, a seasoned professional with experience from Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. The company focuses on democratizing access to alternative assets, allowing individual investors to explore opportunities in tokenized investments like green energy and real estate. By collaborating with fintechs and investment platforms, Ctrl Alt simplifies the process of fractionalizing assets, thereby facilitating capital raising for asset holders. Committed to transparency and security, the platform adheres to the high standards set by the Financial Conduct Authority, ensuring a reliable investment experience. Based in London and Dundalk, Ireland, Ctrl Alt's team includes financial and product experts with backgrounds from prestigious financial institutions, enabling the company to blend industry knowledge with innovative technology.
LifeYield
Acquisition in 2024
LifeYield, LLC is a financial technology company based in Boston that provides innovative software solutions to wealth management firms and financial advisors. Founded in 2008, LifeYield focuses on enhancing the financial health of investors by offering a comprehensive suite of tools designed to optimize asset management. Its key products include the LifeYield UMH, which integrates seamlessly into existing workflows and features tools such as the LifeYield Dashboard for client asset management, the Cash Harvester for cash flow generation, the Payment Modeler for forecasting sustainable cash withdrawals, and the Reporter for asset reporting. Additionally, the LifeYield Advantage Suite encompasses various programs aimed at maximizing social security benefits and minimizing tax liabilities, ultimately helping clients increase their income and preserve their wealth. The company has established a strategic alliance with Jackson National Life Insurance Company, further enhancing its service offerings in the financial advisory space.
Tifin
Venture Round in 2024
Tifin is a fintech platform founded in 2018, based in New York City, that develops and operates companies focused on wealth management, investments, and personal finance. By leveraging investment intelligence, data science, and advanced technology, Tifin aims to enhance the investor experience with innovative products tailored to individual needs. The company emphasizes the importance of making investing a significant contributor to financial well-being. Tifin also has regional offices in Boulder, Bengaluru, Charlotte, and Mumbai, reflecting its broad market reach and commitment to evolving the financial services landscape.
ALTIGO
Acquisition in 2023
Altigo is a cybersecurity and open-source software that enables secure electronic alternative investment transactions between asset managers, wealth advisors, custodians, and transfer agents by utilizing online technological tools and digital workflows.
Novus Partners, Inc. is a New York-based firm that provides data, analysis, and tools tailored for alternative investors, including hedge funds, fund of funds, and family offices. The company specializes in collecting and enriching data from various sources such as administrators, prime brokers, custodians, and accounting systems. By combining this data with market, fundamental, and economic information, Novus enhances the analytical capabilities available to its clients. Its portfolio analytics and intelligence platform assists institutional investors like pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments in assessing risk, performance, and attribution, ultimately enabling them to achieve higher returns through informed decision-making.
Finomial
Acquisition in 2021
Finomial Corporation is a technology company that develops and operates a cloud-based investor services platform tailored for fund administrators, fund managers, and investors. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company focuses on automating the hedge fund subscription process, enhancing investor analytics, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Its platform features tools such as a FATCA dashboard that streamlines the collection and analysis of investor data, enabling efficient management of FATCA declarations and related communications. Additionally, the Investor Portal offers personalized information directly to investors, while the Subscriptions tool improves transparency and compliance between fund administrators and managers. Finomial's solutions aim to reduce risks, lower costs, and increase operational efficiency, allowing clients to optimize their investment processes and enhance investor relations.
Stanza Living
Series D in 2021
Stanza Living is a prominent shared living company in India, specifically catering to students and young professionals. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New Delhi, it aims to transform the multi-billion-dollar student housing and co-living market by focusing on the needs of modern migrant consumers. With over 55,000 beds under management across 14 cities, Stanza Living provides a tech-enabled, full-stack accommodation solution that includes various services such as lodging, food, and Wi-Fi, all designed to facilitate a comfortable living experience. The company's platform allows customers to choose from different packages based on their proximity to educational institutions or workplaces, ensuring affordability and convenience. Through its innovative approach, Stanza Living is redefining the standards of shared living in India.
Oranj offers a wealth management platform aimed at enhancing the relationship between financial advisers and their clients. It provides a user-friendly dashboard that consolidates clients' financial information and goals into a single login environment. The platform aggregates data from over 25,000 financial institutions, allowing users to track their progress towards goals, monitor monthly cash flow, and access a secure document vault. Additionally, Oranj includes collaboration tools that facilitate communication between clients and advisers, enabling personalized investment strategies and efficient trading and rebalancing. By streamlining the financial management process, Oranj empowers clients to make informed financial decisions and engage effectively with their advisers.
ForwardLane
Seed Round in 2020
ForwardLane Inc. is an artificial intelligence company based in New York, specializing in providing digital advisory and distribution solutions for wealth management, asset management, and commercial banking. Founded in 2014, the company has developed a patented AI-powered insight platform that leverages natural language processing to synthesize data and generate actionable insights for financial advisors and fund distributors. This platform acts as a virtual analyst, analyzing client data daily to identify growth opportunities and enhance client engagement. ForwardLane also offers tools like the A1 signal engine, which automates insights, and ForwardLane Goal Miner, designed to extract financial goals from unstructured data. With additional locations in London and a development center in Fort Lauderdale, ForwardLane aims to streamline decision-making processes for financial institutions, enabling them to transform complex data into meaningful intelligence and foster proactive client interactions.
Bounce (formerly known as Metro Bikes) is a smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable, and convenient. With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, the Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention. With Bounce's new One Way Rental service, users can now pick up and drop the bike anywhere they need to and be done with the ride. This is aimed at providing a seamless first mile and last-mile connectivity to metro users. Founded in 2014, Bounce aims at decongesting the roads by encouraging commuters to choose public transport by delivering convenient options to rent bikes and reach their destinations from metro stations. It is based in Bangalore, India.
Shuttl is a company focused on enhancing the daily commute experience through its app-based office shuttle service. It aims to provide a safe, reliable, and affordable transportation option for commuters. The service features air-conditioned minibuses that operate frequently on designated routes, alleviating the challenges associated with traditional public transport. By offering a mobile platform for bus bookings, Shuttl allows users to reserve seats at flat rates, ensuring a comfortable journey without the hassle of long wait times. The company envisions a future of mass transit that is shared, eco-friendly, and technology-driven, positioning itself as a progressive alternative in public transport.
Archway Technology Partners
Acquisition in 2017
Archway Technology Partners, LLC is a software and service provider catering to the investment management and private wealth management sectors in the United States and internationally. The company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to support accounting, investment management, and reporting functions for single and multi-family offices, private banks, investment advisors, and hedge funds. Among its key offerings is ATWeb, a web-deployed application that streamlines partnership and trust accounting, global investments, ownership structures, and performance reporting, while also facilitating essential administrative tasks such as bill payment and document management. Additionally, Archway provides FOIL, a mobile-enabled client portal, and Archway Reporting Technology, a custom report writer for in-house report design. The company also delivers client and professional services, including training, product support, implementation consulting, and software development. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Archway Technology Partners maintains regional offices in New York, Denver, and Oaks, Pennsylvania, and has formed strategic partnerships with various organizations in the industry.
NorthStar Systems International
Acquisition in 2012
NorthStar Systems International, Inc. provides wealth management software solutions to financial services institutions primarily in the United States. Its solutions include NorthStar Client Acquisition Solution that allows asset managers and wealth management firms to provide their advisors the client profiling and communication tools; NorthStar Client Reporting Solution, which enables wealth managers to offer reports and reviews for clients; NorthStar Compliance Solution that offers compliance systems' functionalities; and NorthStar Product Catalog Solution, which allows wealth managers to build customized portfolios. The company also offers client hierarchy, enterprise product hub, planning and portfolio construction, data, and platform services; and professional and technical support services. Its solutions allow users to automate and streamline their wealth management workflows. The company serves financial advisors, wealth managers, banks, trusts, broker-dealers, multi-family offices, and service providers. It delivers its solutions on-premise or on-demand. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in San Francisco, California.