Bridge, founded by Alex Goodwin and Ayo Ekhator, has raised $5.1 million in seed funding led by Thicket Ventures, with backing from executives at firms including Morgan Stanley, Bain Capital, Dynasty, CD&R, and KKR. The company builds workflow automation software for private capital allocators, helping wealth managers, family offices, and institutions manage investments more efficiently. Bridge tackles what its founders call private capital’s “data problem,” where key investment details are buried deep in reports, making it hard for LPs to assess value and liquidity. The platform ingests and organizes these documents, with plans to use anonymized client data to create benchmarks once it has visibility into trillions in assets. It already supports around $150 billion across RIAs and multi-family offices.
From a family office perspective, Bridge is disrupting the space dominated by Canoe and Arch, with other firms like Mantle also advancing in automating private-market data and reporting. Positioned as the first AI-native system for alternative investments, Bridge aims to replace spreadsheets and manual workflows, while also reshaping traditional entry-level roles in finance as automation takes over data-heavy tasks — or as Axios put it, private equity is funding its own disruption.