Light Frame, a fintech infrastructure startup with Swiss roots, has raised $5.1M in a seed round led by Fortino Ventures. The company provides banking and portfolio management technology to the wealth industry.
Sidekick Partners, Tenity, Chamaeleon and AltaIR Capital joined the round. Existing investors Rogue Venture Partners, New Stack Ventures and Studio Alpha also participated. Light Frame had previously raised $1.7M in a pre-seed round in 2024.
Founded in 2024, Light Frame aims to replace what it describes as outdated technology infrastructure at traditional private banks. Its founding team includes key personnel who previously worked at Swiss digital private bank Alpian.
The company offers a cloud and API-based platform. Wealth managers can use it to manage client investment portfolios and assets and to process investment and corporate transactions, among other functions. The software is modular, so firms can modernise individual parts of their existing systems or adopt the full platform.
Light Frame will use the new capital to invest in the platform and to expand its commercial team across EMEA.
Schuyler Weiss, co-founder and CEO of Light Frame and a former CEO of Alpian, said artificial intelligence is changing what technology can deliver, but that realising its potential in wealth management depends on the underlying infrastructure. He said the architecture must be designed for that future without compromising the security, resilience and trust that banking requires. He added that Fortino and the wider investor group share the ambition to build that foundation for the next generation of wealth management.
