Curated by Rob Saunders, WhoFiled. Interested in launching an industry intelligence report for your audience? Contact rob@whofiled.com. The big theme: the make-or-buy question for the middle office looks like it is trending toward buy, contrary to some of the hype around vibecoding. Across wealth and asset management this week, platforms and incumbents moved to acquire … Continue reading The Platforms Are Buying Up the Middle Office

Halluminate.ai, an Orange Collective portfolio company, wants to license the internal operational data of financial institutions, consulting firms, or similar knowledge work institutions, e.g., old deal rooms, client projects, etc. They will pay you up to 6 or 7 digits. Halluminate works with Anthropic, OpenAI, and other leading AI labs to build RL (Reinforcement Learning) … Continue reading How investors & consultancies can monetize their operational data

Curated by Rob Saunders, WhoFiled. Interested in launching an industry intelligence report for your audience? Contact rob@whofiled.com. The big theme: The incumbents are funding the companies built to disrupt them. Arca’s $64 million across seed and Series A, including the $48.5 million A led by General Catalyst with Index and Venrock, is the clearest signal … Continue reading The Incumbents Are Funding the Companies Built to Replace Them

Curated by Rob Saunders, WhoFiled. Interested in launching an industry intelligence report for your audience? Contact rob@whofiled.com. The big theme: This week the largest investment tech checks went to the data and controls layer underneath institutional capital, and in both cases the money writing them was private credit. Chronograph raised more than $140 million in … Continue reading Private Credit Is Funding the Machinery That Watches Private Markets