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Ryan Eisenman: It’s more grunt work, but 100% worthwhile grunt work.

Three 'RIA' executives headline $20-million VC raise to address an alts problem so annoying and tedious that existing alts players are cheering them on

Jason Wenk, Steve Lockshin and Marc Spilker know that Arch can can get alts administration of out of the shoebox and that high-flown 'alts' investors like Joe Lonsdale align.

December 19, 2023 at 3:01 AM

Joe Lonsdale: Opto's marketplace helps RIAs 'preserve and grow client capital.'

Biz Briefs: Fidelity says humans beat robots, even for Gen Z • Joe Lonsdale's Opto starts signing RIA test-drivers • Vanguard launches oddly delayed fund • Wealthbox hires, and Dynasty buys

Fidelity wins Delta Airlines business with sweetener • Opto pairs-up with Riskalyze and Merchant • Moonfare raises $15 million • CAIS bucks real estate trend • Vanguard launches "curious[ly]" delayed fund • WealthBox, Dynasty, and others buy and hire.

March 8, 2023 at 3:28 AM

Joe Lonsdale: '[We] make them wait months, or years, which is rude and hurts us.'

Addepar's chairman writes five-alarm warning about how US immigration red tape is putting foreign engineers through hell, creating a 'quiet crisis' for tech companies

Joe Lonsdale uses words like 'egregious' 'crapshoot' and 'rude' in Wall Street Journal article to explain how 'America and its economy are the butt of the joke.'

October 26, 2022 at 1:12 AM

Joe Lonsdale: As the alternative space matures there's room for creative approaches and ... products that might not have worked in the past.

Addepar founder Joe Lonsdale's second alts tech startup for RIAs, Opto Investments, leaves 'stealth' mode with $145 million raise and the chutzpah to take on iCapital and CAIS

Opto comes late to the alts game, but at a $475-million valuation, VC backers are seeing founders' vision of a way-upmarket niche

September 23, 2022 at 2:38 AM

Joe Lonsdale: We have a bunch of creative ideas based on lessons learned.

Joe Lonsdale is prepping Lonsdale Investment Technologies for launch 13 years after founding Addepar -- with the new business model too cannibalistic for comfort, some say

The Austin, Texas, serial entrepreneur is still executive chair of, and a big stakeholder in, Addepar but may need a fresh start to manifest his hyped vision of creating high bandwidth financial flow between retail investors and vast private markets.

February 23, 2022 at 12:09 AM

Joe Lonsdale: This is a rare company where the second decade is much more exciting than the first.

Nearing $3 trillion of AUA, Addepar accepts another $150 million of unsolicited PE money because the price was right --a $2.17 billion valuation

D1 Capital Partners -- fresh off a crushing loss in the GameStop debacle -- footed the entire Series F capital raise by buying in at double Addepar's value from just seven months ago.

June 18, 2021 at 5:25 PM

The Vestorly office in New York needs to be regularly unburdened of pizza boxes.

Did Vestorly just right-place, right-time itself into an advisor content force with Dow Jones deal -- and what seems set to follow?

The New York-based startup is out-Dow Jones-ing Dow Jones at distributing the Wall Street Journal to advisors but very much with its blessing, too

July 21, 2016 at 11:47 PM

Eric Poirer [r.] with Joe Lonsdale: There are 10 or 20 custodians just for a mid-sized RIA. It's just a giant mess.

Addepar lays out world-fixing vision and rolls out upgrades at swanky The Battery event in San Francisco

RIAs got the '$120-trillion' pitch straight from Joe Lonsdale and Eric Poirer, who say they are unveiling new software that will speak the same language to the Tower of Babel that is the RIA industry

April 23, 2015 at 6:41 PM

Eric Poirer: We have invested tremendously in our culture.

After one year of 'eight-fold' growth, Addepar rotates Karen White out and an ex-SAP exec in

The new CMO, Barbara Holzapfel, will face the challenge of establishing a niche more specific than 'all of the above'

November 10, 2014 at 8:32 PM

Joe Lonsdale: Wealth management is designed for the 1950s, not this century.

Takeaways from a New York Times article about Addepar

The Mountain View, Calif. start-up kept it close to the vest but revealed who they believe uses big data to good effect

August 8, 2014 at 3:25 AM

Mike Paulus (r.) being interviewed by Bill Winterberg: It was a very long and smooth transition. (photo courtesy of Winterberg.)

The face of Addepar leaves the company amid intrigue about just where it stands with the RIA market

Mike Paulus was company president during its formative time and exemplified its faith in youth

March 24, 2014 at 3:33 AM

Mike Paulus: We're not just a Black Diamond replacement for RIAs.

Addepar hits $50 billion of assets and turns its eyes to Advent-Black Diamond's plump RIA market

With close to $12 million in revenue, a hotshot tech startup is looking to move into second phase of development: Attracting RIAs despite naysayers

November 26, 2012 at 5:42 PM

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