NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 29, 2026-- CAIS, the leading alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, today announced a $170 million Series D financing with lead participant Vista Equity Partners, and additional investment from AllianceBernstein L.P.

CAIS, Arch raise fresh capital as advisors lean into private markets. The two alternative-investment platforms' new financing - coming from Blue Owl, Carlyle, Franklin Templeton and other big-name backers - signals deepening advisor demand for private-market access. JUL 29, 2026 Two leading alts technology platforms for advisors have raised fresh capital in the latest sign of how central private-markets infrastructure has become to the wealth management business. CAIS, the alternative investment platform dedicated to independent financial advisors, announced it had closed a $170 million Series D round led by Vista Equity Partners, with participation from AllianceBernstein, Blue Owl Capital, Carlyle, Fortress Investment Group, Golub Capital, Lord Abbett and Royal Bank of Canada. The round values the company at more than $2 billion and brings its total capital raised to nearly $600 million. Separately, Arch, which helps advisors, banks and family offices administer and monitor private-markets portfolios, named previously undisclosed backers from its $52 million Series B round, including MUFG Innovation Partners and Franklin Templeton. The company also disclosed that it has surpassed $500 billion in assets on its platform - now standing at $539 billion, having doubled over the past year. Why alts infrastructure is a space to watch. The announcements arrive as more advisors build allocations to private equity, private credit, hedge funds and other alternative assets into client portfolios - a trend that has strained the manual paperwork and reporting processes many firms still rely on. Platforms like CAIS and Arch have positioned themselves as the connective tissue between advisors and the alternatives marketplace, handling a host of complexities from fund selection and trade execution to document collection and portfolio reporting. CAIS said its platform now serves more than 2,500 wealth management firms representing over 65,000 financial advisors, who collectively oversee approximately $8.5 trillion in end-client assets. The company reported a 53% year-over-year increase in transaction volume in the first half of 2026, alongside a 55% rise in total platform assets over the same period. According to the company, it has onboarded more than 425 new RIAs and independent broker-dealers since 2025, representing over $1.8 trillion in assets, including firms such as AE Wealth Management and Beacon Pointe Advisors. "Together with the independent wealth community, we have built the platform technology and client service model this industry deserves, and our biggest chapter is still ahead," said Matt Brown, founder and chief executive of CAIS. David Breach, president of Vista Equity Partners, is joining CAIS' board, while representatives from Blue Owl, Lord Abbett, Fortress and Carlyle will serve as board observers. "By embedding AI and agentic capabilities into the advisor workflow, CAIS is creating a more intelligent, connected, and scalable experience," Breach said. Arch leans on institutional backing to scale. Arch's growth story centers on solving what its executives describe as an outdated, manual process for turning private-fund documents and data into usable information for allocators. The company said it supports more than 650 institutional clients, including four of the top 20 global banks and eight of the top 20 accounting firms, alongside registered investment advisors and family offices. Ryan Eisenman, Arch's co-founder and chief executive, framed the milestone as validation of the platform's approach to a persistently fragmented and manual corner of the industry. "Crossing $500 billion in assets on our platform is a reflection of how many of the industry's most sophisticated allocators are turning to Arch to solve that problem," Eisenman said. MUFG Innovation Partners, the venture arm of Japan's MUFG, is also an Arch client, using the platform to manage fund-of-funds positions and streamline document aggregation. Ryan Stern, senior vice president at MUFG Innovation Partners, said the firm sees Arch addressing "one of the industry's most pressing operational gaps" as demand for alternatives has accelerated faster than the infrastructure supporting it.

CAIS Welcomes New Strategic Investors, valuing the company at over $2 billion. July 29, 2026 - by CAIS CAIS delivers a 3-year organic revenue CAGR of 37%, with the biggest chapter still ahead, says founder and CEO Matt Brown NEW YORK, NY - July 29, 2026 - CAIS, the leading alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, today announced a $170 million Series D financing with lead participant Vista Equity Partners, and additional investment from AllianceBernstein L.P. (NYSE: AB), funds managed by Blue Owl Capital (NYSE: OWL), Carlyle (NYSE: CG), Fortress Investment Group, Golub Capital, Lord Abbett, and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). The investment round values CAIS at over $2 billion, bringing total capital raised to nearly $600 million, and coincides with a 3-year organic revenue CAGR of 37% that reflects the scale and trust CAIS has built across the independent wealth channel. "When strategic investors of this caliber back CAIS, it reflects their conviction in both the market opportunity and category leadership," said Matt Brown, Founder and CEO of CAIS. "Together with the independent wealth community, we have built the platform technology and client service model this industry deserves, and our biggest chapter is still ahead," Brown added. David Breach, President of Vista Equity Partners, will join the CAIS Board of Directors. Representatives from Blue Owl, Lord Abbett, Fortress, and Carlyle will serve as Board observers. "CAIS has built a trusted technology platform that is transforming how independent advisors access, evaluate, and manage alternative investments," said David Breach, President of Vista Equity Partners. "By embedding AI and agentic capabilities into the advisor workflow, CAIS is creating a more intelligent, connected, and scalable experience. I look forward to joining the Board and working with Matt and the team on their next phase of growth." FT Partners served as the exclusive financial advisor and Sidley Austin LLP served as legal counsel to CAIS in connection with the transaction. CAIS Welcomes New Strategic Investors Record growth across the CAIS platform. The platform today serves over 2,500 wealth management firms, representing more than 65,000 financial advisors who oversee approximately $8.5 trillion in end-client assets. * In the first half of 2026, the platform drove a 53% year-over-year increase in transaction volume, with total platform assets up 55% over the same period. The momentum spans every dimension of the platform. * Since 2025, CAIS has onboarded 425-plus new RIAs and independent broker dealers representing over $1.8 trillion in assets, including AE Wealth Management, AllianceBernstein, Beacon Pointe Advisors, &Partners, and OpenArc. * Transaction volume increased 60% year-over-year among existing wealth firms, including Baird, Wealth Enhancement Group, Mariner, and Edward Jones. Recent Growth at-a-Glance Delivering on the one-platform Solution. Advisors now use CAIS as a complete end-to-end platform spanning the Funds Marketplace, Custom Funds, and Capital Markets, with 150-plus technology features released in the first half of 2026 alone, up 50% year over year. Highlights across the platform, include: * Schwab Cash Balance and Ticker Redemptions complete the full round-trip trading experience for interval funds. Multi Order Signing streamlines bulk order processing, and New Holdings delivers AI-powered insights that can turn post-trade monitoring into faster, better-informed decisions. * CAIS Compass expanded with 30-plus new building blocks, enabling advisors to map products directly to client strategies. Payoff Explorer enables advisors to model structured note outcomes, helping them build portfolios. * Secondary Market capabilities through LODAS Markets provide platform users the ability to buy or sell certain alternative investment positions, bringing primary and secondary market opportunities together on a single platform for the first time. Equity Syndicate gives wealth firms and their advisors access to select equity IPO opportunities, including the ability to view offering details and submit or revise indications of interest, all through the platform. The breadth of these capabilities is reflected in advisor satisfaction. CAIS' advisor Net Promoter Score reached a new high of 74, more than double the B2B SaaS industry benchmark of 36.[1] AI powering the advisor experience. CAIS is entering the agentic phase of its AI strategy, building intelligent tools across the advisor journey, embedding AI throughout the organization, and scaling its software lifecycle resulting in an 80% year-over-year increase in throughput. CAIS' AI research agent, CAISey, gives advisors instant access to platform data and insights through simple, conversational prompts. Through the integration with Anthropic's Claude, CAISey connects directly into the advisor's workflow. Connecting the advisor ecosystem. CAIS is now embedded as core infrastructure across the platforms advisors depend on every day. CAIS has deepened integrations with Schwab, Fidelity Investments, BNY, and Goldman Sachs while recording record volume across self-clearing custodial firms including Edward Jones and Baird. CAIS also welcomed RedBlack, Inspira Financial, and BetaNXT as new integration partners, extending that same streamlined experience for advisors who use those platforms. CAIS' Integration Partners Setting a new standard for alts education. CAIS has built the industry's most trusted learning platform and has hosted 50 CAIS Live events with firms including Edward Jones, Mariner, Baird, William Blair, and Brookstone. The events have engaged 7,600-plus attendees with an average feedback score of 4.8/5. Additionally, the expansion of the CAIS IQ education library, combined with over 400,000 digital engagements, underscores CAIS' commitment to increasing advisor education and alternatives adoption. CAIS will host its fifth annual CAIS Summit in Beverly Hills, October 12-15, 2026, bringing together 1,200 financial advisors, asset managers, and industry leaders delivering content across alternative investments, capital markets, geopolitics, artificial intelligence, sports, media and entertainment, and aerospace and defense. 50 CAIS Live Events The next chapter of growth. This investment will accelerate CAIS' next phase of growth, enabling the company to expand its platform, scale its technology and AI capabilities, explore strategic opportunities, and continue delivering the innovation advisors need to better serve their clients. CAIS' latest investment follows its $50 million 2020 Series B investment by Eldridge, and a $340 million 2022 Series C financing round led by Apollo (NYSE: APO) and Motive Partners ("Motive"), with additional investment from Franklin Templeton (NYSE: BEN), Reverence Capital Partners, and Hamilton Lane, bringing the company's total capital raised to nearly $600 million. About CAIS. CAIS is the leading alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors. The CAIS platform powers the pre-trade, trade, and post-trade lifecycle of alternative investments providing financial advisors and alternative asset managers with a single operating system for scale and efficiency. CAIS serves over 2,500 wealth management firms that support more than 65,000 financial advisors who oversee approximately $8.5 trillion in end-client assets. Founded in 2009, CAIS is headquartered in New York City with offices in London; Austin, Texas; and Red Bank, New Jersey. CAIS continues to be recognized for its innovation and leadership including awards for Alternative Investment Firm of the Year by Wealth Solutions Report, WealthTech100 List by Fintech Global, Great Places to Work by Fortune, Best RIA Platform by SPi, Best Alternative Investments Solution by Finovate, and many others. Securities offered through CAIS Capital LLC, member FINRA, SIPC.