One of our newer portfolio companies came out of stealth this week. Welcome to the world, Astraeus. Co-founded by Phil Rosen (Orchard, Even, MoneyLion) and Jon Stevenson (Barclays, Stifel, MoneyLion), Astraeus is building AI-native infrastructure that encodes data, decisioning, and compliance into the operating core of modern financial advisory firms. We're really v.chuffed to be on this journey with you both.
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Astraeus comes out of stealth!
Wealth management is trying to adopt AI on top of infrastructure built for a pre-AI world: fragmented systems, multiple competing versions of "truth," workflows that actively prevent learning from compounding. Here's the uncomfortable part: most firms don't have an AI problem. They have a coordination problem. A context problem. Intelligence is becoming a firm-level economic input, not a feature, not a vendor integration. If you're thinking about what has to change at the operating model layer (not just the tool layer), follow Astraeus

