Overview
Arch builds software that gathers the documents and data from private investments, such as private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds, into one standardized view for family offices, wealth advisors, institutions, and individual investors. Private funds each report through their own portals, emails, and PDFs, so investors have long tracked these holdings in spreadsheets and crowded inboxes. Arch pulls in those statements and reports, extracts the figures, writes AI summaries of long investor letters, and flags major changes across a portfolio. Clients pay yearly fees based on how many investments they track, and the platform also manages tasks for investment teams. Arch was founded in 2018 and is based in New York City.
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Usage is compounding: private assets tracked on Arch doubled in a year to $539 billion by July 2026.
- Arch is expanding into diligence: Investment Research, launched September 2026, checks private deals against each client's own criteria.
- Arch trains its own talent: a year-long Associate program for entry-level hires graduated its first class in September 2026.
What critics are saying
- Bloomberg now owns a direct rival: it closed its purchase of Canoe, used by 500+ institutions, in October 2026.
- Expect daily office work: Arch's job posts say most full-time roles are onsite every day in New York.
- Not every role is permanent: Arch's October 2026 data processing analyst opening is a 12-month contract at $65K to $68K.
What makes Arch unique
- Big institutions rely on it: clients include four of the world's 20 largest banks and eight top-20 accounting firms.
- Arch gets documents straight from fund managers: it collects tax forms and updates and chases missing ones automatically.
- One portfolio, many hands: investors, advisors, and accountants work from the same documents under permissions the client controls.
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