Arch

Proud to be partnering with MUIP. Their support, alongside our other investors, has helped fuel the momentum we announced this week: $500B+ in private assets now on the Arch platform.

We've surpassed $500 billion in private market assets on the Arch platform, more than doubling over the past year. At the same time, happy to share that MUFG Innovation Partners and Franklin Templeton were strategic investors in our Series B, previously undisclosed until today. As existing Arch customers, their participation reflects the growing demand for technology infrastructure that manages the complexity of private markets. As private markets continue to evolve, we're focused on building infrastructure that gives allocators greater efficiency, transparency and intelligence in their investment operations. Thank you to our customers, partners and team for reaching this milestone with us.

Private markets access is becoming a retention question for RIAs, not a product gap. Firms that treat it as core to the client relationship keep their best households. The ones that don't will watch those clients find access somewhere else. Arch collects documents across GP portals, capital statements, K-1s, and more, then pulls the underlying values to drive insights across an RIA's client base. Clients can also add held away assets, for a full picture without a dedicated ops team. PitchBook named Arch among the platforms making this shift possible for RIAs. Mercer Advisors is a case in point. Their CIO doesn't measure the firm's proprietary vehicle by the $100M it raised. He measures it by the $3B in client wealth it keeps. More RIAs are moving this direction, and it's one of the ways firms build with Arch. Reach out if you want to talk through what that could look like for your firm.

Meet the Arch Class of 2026. This group now represents roughly a tenth of our company. Most startups treat early career hiring as a risk to manage. We've made it one of our most deliberate investments. The bet: find high-potential people, give them real ownership early, and support them well enough that they grow alongside the business instead of behind it. It's the same discipline we apply to the product. Arch is building better systems for an industry that outgrew its old ones. This program is that instinct applied to talent: thoughtful, rigorous, built to scale. What we look for looks a lot like how we work: ambitious, curious, detail-oriented, open-minded, collaborative. Long term, we want Arch to be where early career talent in fintech comes to start. This class says we're on our way.

At our recent Client Advisory Board, one theme cut across every session: private markets have always been data-rich and insight-poor. The information was there yet nobody had built the infrastructure to surface it. The firms winning aren't the ones with the most data. They're the ones with the right answer before the client asks. Our new CTO, Keith Soura, calls it a human magnification strategy: AI takes the manual work off allocators' desks so their time goes to the relationships that actually drive the business. Machines handle the operational complexity. People handle the relationships. We saw it in practice when the SpaceX IPO hit. Arch didn't wait for clients to come looking for their exposure. We surfaced it before they asked. The best-served clients are the ones who never have to ask. That's the gap Arch is built to close. Link to full Modus News interview with Keith https://lnkd.in/g5FyunWw

At a recent Arch event, Monica DiCenso, Head of Global Investment Opportunities, J.P. Morgan Private Bank, painted a picture of where wealth management is headed and it's a genuinely exciting one for advisors ready to meet it. Portfolio personalization is becoming the expectation for every client relationship, with direct indexing leading the way. Clients now want to mirror an index while excluding specific stocks, sectors, or geographies they don't want, or overweighting the ones they believe in rather than investing in a generic fund. Access to alternative investment deals is opening up fast. Secondaries and new fund structures are putting more opportunities in front of more advisors every quarter, a sign of how quickly this part of the market is maturing. The benefits of company-wide AI adoption are showing up in company financials. JPMorgan's own analysis shows that public companies actively and effectively adopting AI in their operations are seeing roughly 300 basis points higher profit margins than those that aren't. And since many AI-native businesses are staying private longer, the best way to get real exposure to the companies with that measurable, structural advantage is through alternatives. Advisors who gain an edge in this environment are building genuinely personalized strategies for every client. They move on new opportunities quickly. And they're looking to weight client portfolios toward the next generation of companies building real value. That edge increasingly runs through alternatives but scaling an alternative allocation exposes an infrastructure gap most firms haven't solved. Every manager runs its own portal, its own format, its own cadence, which turns performance tracking, capital calls, and tax reporting into a manual chase across a dozen different logins. Arch was built to close that gap. Arch simplifies K-1 and document collection, capital calls, reporting, giving wealth advisors the ability to manage, monitor and gain performance insights across private equity, venture capital, and other private investments.

As private equity portfolios grow, operational complexity grows with them. For Churchill Asset Management, managing capital calls, fund documents, and investor reporting across dozens of portals had become increasingly difficult to scale. With Arch, Churchill saves more than 45 hours per week on document collection and has established a centralized source of truth for fund-investment information, helping stay on top of capital calls. Thank you to Chris Schultz and the entire Churchill team for their partnership and trust as we worked together to streamline fund-investment operations and improve visibility across their alternatives portfolio. Read the full case study: https://lnkd.in/gF7JVjX4

Private markets have always been data-rich and insight-poor. The information exists but the infrastructure to surface it hasn't. Today we're welcoming Keith Soura as Arch's Chief Technology Officer to close that gap. Keith builds systems that get stronger as they scale, most recently leading engineering at Better.com. He joins to take Arch beyond automating the work of private markets to anticipating what’s needed and what matters across a portfolio before clients have to ask. Welcome, Keith. https://lnkd.in/gVdWwhB6

Last week we brought our Client Advisory Board together and then mostly got out of the way. The best part of the day wasn't us presenting. It was our clients running the room. Four client-led sessions on the questions everyone's wrestling with in 2026: the real tech stack, where edge actually comes from, advisor ops in the AI era, and what's ahead. Then we opened our roadmap and got feedback on where we go next. That's how we build: client-forward, in the open, with industry leaders in the room. More from each session in the coming weeks.

What makes Arch special is our people. The talent, curiosity, and quality of thinking on display throughout this year's Sh-Arch Tank were exceptional. Congratulations to all the participants and winners. We're proud to have such an ambitious and thoughtful team helping shape the future of Arch. 🚀