Aiera, a generative AI platform that delivers real-time event solutions for financial services professionals, has closed a $25m Series B funding round.
The investment was led by a newly formed consortium featuring ten of Wall Street’s largest investment banks, alongside global expert network firm Third Bridge. As part of this initiative, Microsoft has also joined as a strategic technology partner.
The FinTech company offers a secure platform that integrates broker research, expert content, financial news, filings, and transcripts into a unified dashboard. Its technology is trusted by many of the world’s leading asset managers and financial institutions to support real-time decision-making across the investment lifecycle.
With the new funds, Aiera plans to accelerate the development of its generative AI solutions, focusing on improving language model precision, enhancing protection for intellectual property, and enabling secure access to entitled financial research content.
Microsoft’s involvement as a strategic partner will provide Aiera with advanced Azure infrastructure to scale its platform and drive innovation across its product suite.
In addition, Aiera has formed a Buy-Side Advisory Council comprising senior executives from leading long-only and hedge fund firms. This group will help shape the company’s technology roadmap through product feedback and strategic development guidance.
Aiera CEO and co-founder Ken Sena said, “This marks a defining moment in our industry. Together with our partners, we are building a secure and scalable AI ecosystem – one that enhances the value of research, safeguards intellectual property, and empowers more informed, real-time decision-making. We’re honored by this collective commitment and excited to lead this next chapter of industry innovation.”
Aiera chairman and COO Gavin Skinner said, “By bringing together the world’s top financial research institutions, we are ensuring AI innovation is developed responsibly within the highly regulated research domain
“Our focus is on clear standards for intellectual property protection, entitled content access, accurate chat-prompt responses, and citation integrity. Aiera’s technology solutions will be made available to all content creators, content consumers, existing content aggregators, and new and emerging platforms within the financial services industry.”
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