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Runik Mehrotra and Samir Vasavada are taking a third swing at delivering on their promise.

Vise resets -- again -- with more executive firepower and fresh vision focused on RIA M&A and 'wellness,' but analysts say its solutions must stand apart to succeed

The New York City brat pack -- still loaded with VC cash -- is pivoting, again, but with a pitch that has convinced big hitters to join the firm as advisors and president, respectively.

November 6, 2024 at 5:06 AM

Mihir Shah: The differentiation will be in combining first-party data with public data.

Fidelity Investments is suddenly fending off a fresh wave of AI suitors for its vast recordkeeping data trove, knowing it's like owning a lithium mine in 2000 -- and not knowing how clients, the SEC and others might see a sale

With 42 million customers and the nation's largest record-keeping business, Fidelity is sitting on oodles of now in-demand client data; so far, it's rejecting every bidder.

July 28, 2023 at 9:38 PM

Runik Mehrotra (left) and Samir Vasavada: We've spent a ton of time with these things … [to] verify they don't hallucinate, telling you things that are completely wrong.

Vise's two co-founders, both 23, launch 'hard reset' -- still with $78 million and a six-year runway -- to no-'hallucination' AI business model where RIAs can opt out of artificial intelligence

The two co-founders in New York City spawned magical thinking about AI, but hard experience means they are the clear-eyed ones now, they say

May 23, 2023 at 8:25 PM

Samir Vasavada (left) and Runik Mehrotra (right) have a unicorn on their hands, following Vise's Series C round.

Vise falls way short of $1 billion projections after RIAs balk, but venture capitalists promptly reward fledgling with $1-billion valuation -- based on $5-trillion vision

The New York firm gets $65 million six months after it raised $45 million by going straight at the $5 trillion of high-net-worth assets managed mostly by big RIAs with software that listens to RIAs but does all their work.

June 8, 2021 at 2:56 AM

Friends for  a decade, Runik Mehrotra and Samir Vasavada have raised $18 million in VC funds, largely on the promise that they can take on -- and beat -- current B2B robos like Betterment.

Sequoia Capital bet and won big on FutureAdvisor; now it's wagering $14.5 million on Vise and its 'extreme value proposition' for RIAs

The legendary VC sold FA to BlackRock for $150 million , cooled its heels, then re-upped in Robo 2.0 wave with TD, Schwab, Riskalyze and Jon Xu playing roles

July 6, 2020 at 7:16 PM

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