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FINNY AI

The OS for independent financial advisors

FINNY is building a new operating system for independent financial advisors, and starting by helping them grow. Our goal is to empower the best financial advisors (the independents!) to serve all Americans who want financial advice. We are starting with growth, which is the most existential problem advisors face. The organic growth process is highly inefficient and full of noise. Advisors often waste 60 hours of business development to convert 1 new client. At FINNY, we are certain we can do better with AI. With our tool, advisors can: - Identify prospects within their target niche, aggregating thousands of data points per lead - Prioritize prospects based on their predicted likelihood of converting, a score unique to each advisor and prospect pair - Automate the outreach and meeting scheduling with their high priority prospects In essence, doing all the work for the advisors, and letting them focus on what actually matters, the client relationship.

FINNY AI
Founded:2024
Team Size:4
Location:New York
Group Partner:Michael Seibel

Active Founders

Eden Ovadia, Founder

Eden is the Co-founder and CEO of FINNY. She studied Software Eng. at McGill University with a focus on ML. Prior to starting FINNY, Eden was at BCG where she worked in Private Equity & Financial Services.

Eden Ovadia
Eden Ovadia
FINNY AI

Theodore Janson, Founder

Theo is the co-founder and CTO at FINNY. Before FINNY, Theo worked as an applied ML engineer in an early Fintech startup, leading the development of statistical models and LLMs for automated financial analysis. He has also held research roles in LLM explainability and particle physics. Theo has degrees in electrical engineering and CS from Ecole Polytechnique (X) and McGill University.

Theodore Janson
Theodore Janson
FINNY AI

Victoria Toli, Founder

Victoria is the co-founder and CPO of FINNY, an AI-driven growth engine for financial advisors. Before FINNY, she was a Product Manager at Uber, where she led growth and international expansion for Uber One. She holds a BS in Symbolic Systems, Artificial Intelligence from Stanford. Victoria grew up in Athens, Greece.

Victoria Toli
Victoria Toli
FINNY AI

Company Launches

Hey everyone, we are Theo, Eden, and Victoria — the founders of FINNY. We help independent financial advisors find and convert new clients, using AI.

If you’re confused as to why the three of us are so excited about building for financial advisors, keep reading.

🧑‍🔬 The Team

🏦The Sales Whisperer

Eden was most recently at BCG NYC, where she primarily worked in the Tech, Financial Institutions & Private Equity practices. She holds a BEng in Software Engineering from McGill (ML focus).

👾The Model Man

Theo worked as a ML engineer at an early Fintech startup and AI researcher in Explainable ML. He holds a BEng in EE and Math from McGill and MS in AI from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.

👩🏼‍🎨The Visionary

Victoria came from Uber, where she led membership growth for Uber One as a Product Manager. She holds a BS from Stanford in Symbolic Systems (AI focus).

🫶🏻 Why are we obsessed with Financial Advisors?

  • The Great Wealth Transfer - $80T of wealth will be transferred from the Boomer/Silent Gen to the next generation over the next 20 years.
  • Retiring advisors - 45,000 financial advisors are over the age of 65 in the US, managing $3T in wealth that will change management when they retire.
  • Wealth creation - Wealth is being created in unprecedented ways (E.g., Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Social media, Racial wealth gain), but the institution serving the wealth has not changed
  • Consolidation - Private equity driving consolidation of a historically long tail of independent advisors
  • Price Inertia: Financial Advisors are used to paying 25 bps annually IN PERPETUITY for referrals. That’s $200B annually from the wealth transfer alone.

💀 The Problem FINNY is Solving

Financial advisors manage >$100T in assets globally. Yet, bringing on new clients is highly inefficient. Their best bet is to repurpose horizontal solutions - like Linkedin, ZoomInfo, and Pitchbook - to create long and noisy prospect lists. However, without a proper way to qualify these leads or even reach their particular niche at scale, advisors end up spending an average of 58 hours going after the wrong, often unqualified prospects before converting one new client.

💡 The Solution

FINNY is reimagining organic growth for financial advisors with AI. Our first product, a multi-channel Sales agent, allows users to sit back and relax while it goes “out in the wild” (aka our massive database of high-net-worth individuals) and prospects for them. It’s like your intern, except it’s always on, running in the background.

FINNY’s goal is for advisors to wake up in the morning to meetings with prospects on their calendars, entirely booked by FINNY. Our value proposition is three-fold:

  1. Prospect identification:

    • We identify prospects within their target niche, aggregating thousands of data points per lead and constantly monitoring for life triggers

  2. Prospect prioritization:

    • We prioritize prospects based on their predicted likelihood of converting, a score unique to each advisor and prospect pair
  3. Prospect outreach & engagement:

    • We automate the outreach and meeting scheduling with the high-priority prospects, intelligently selecting the optimal channel for the specific prospect

Progress so far

In just 3 months, we have:

  • Released the 1st and 2nd iteration of the product to 15 advisory firms.
  • Grown revenue by >11x MoM.
  • Got 70 firms to join our waitlist, without any acquisition efforts or outbound.
  • Won Morningstar’s Fintech Showcase last month.
  • Have been getting some buzz! Here and here.

❓One Ask for You (If you made it this far)

If you ever thought about working with a financial advisor, evaluated one, currently work with one (or want to get matched with one 😉), we’d love to talk to you. Book 15 min with us here. If you’re in SF, we’ll buy you a coffee. If not, let’s call it an IOU.