{"id":82467,"title":"⚡FINNY - Supercharge organic growth for Financial Advisors","tagline":"We help independent financial advisors find and convert new clients, using AI. ","body":"Hey everyone, we are Theo, Eden, and Victoria — the founders of [FINNY](https://www.finnyai.com/). We help independent financial advisors find and convert new clients, using AI.\\\n\\\nIf you’re confused as to why the three of us are so excited about building for financial advisors, keep reading.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82467\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/9cd181f2-59e6-4458-b5c9-250b9399ee43)\n\n# 🧑‍🔬 **The Team**\n\n**🏦The Sales Whisperer**  \n\n[Eden](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edenovadia/) was most recently at BCG NYC, where she primarily worked in the Tech, Financial Institutions \u0026 Private Equity practices. She holds a BEng in Software Engineering from McGill (ML focus). \n\n**👾The Model Man** \n\n[Theo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodore-janson/) 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.\n\n**👩🏼‍🎨The Visionary** \n\n[Victoria](https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-toli/) 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). \n\n# **🫶🏻 Why are we obsessed with Financial Advisors?**\n\n* **The Great Wealth Transfer** - $80T of wealth will be transferred from the Boomer/Silent Gen to the next generation over the next 20 years. \n* **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.\n* **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\n* **Consolidation** - Private equity driving consolidation of a historically long tail of independent advisors\n* **Price Inertia:** Financial Advisors are used to paying 25 bps annually IN PERPETUITY for referrals. That’s $200B annually from the wealth transfer alone.\n\n \n\n# 💀 **The Problem FINNY is Solving**\n\nFinancial advisors manage \u003e$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.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82467\u0026key=user_uploads/1755270/ea1b3592-dc3a-4581-86ad-447709eec5bf)\n\n# 💡 **The Solution**\n\nFINNY 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.\n\nFINNY’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: \n\n1. **_Prospect identification:_**\n   * _We identify prospects within their target niche, aggregating thousands of data points per lead and constantly monitoring for life triggers_\n\n    \n2. **_Prospect prioritization_:**\n   * We prioritize prospects based on their predicted likelihood of converting, a score unique to each advisor and prospect pair\n3. **_Prospect outreach \u0026 engagement:_**\n   * _We automate the outreach and meeting scheduling with the high-priority prospects, intelligently selecting the optimal channel for the specific prospect_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82467\u0026key=user_uploads/1755270/2df42888-af79-4d31-a06f-a153ff0487e7)\n\n# ✅ **Progress so far**\n\nIn just 3 months, we have:\n\n* Released the **1st** and **2nd iteration** of the product to 15 advisory firms.\n* Grown revenue by \u003e**11x** MoM.\n* Got **70** firms to join our waitlist, without any acquisition efforts or outbound.\n* **Won** Morningstar’s Fintech Showcase last month.\n* Have been getting some **buzz**! [Here](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240724776742/en/Future-Proof-Announces-Groundbreaking-Lineup-of-Fintech-Demo-Drop-III-Finalists) and [here](https://www.downtownjoshbrown.com/p/future-financial-advice-already-993f).\n\n \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82467\u0026key=user_uploads/1755270/5a150faf-0c65-424a-96f1-90f6e4c79b94)\n\n# **❓One Ask for You (If you made it this far)**\n\nIf 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.](https://calendly.com/eden-finny/finny-intro-call) If you’re in SF, we’ll buy you a coffee. If not, let’s call it an IOU.","slug":"LS7-finny-supercharge-organic-growth-for-financial-advisors","created_at":"2024-07-26T15:05:12.600Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T02:24:47.220Z","total_vote_count":61,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LS7-finny-supercharge-organic-growth-for-financial-advisors","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=82467\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/9cd181f2-59e6-4458-b5c9-250b9399ee43","company":{"id":29735,"name":"FINNY AI","slug":"finny-ai","url":"https://www.finny.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6ab4e3c33029c67ba8eae7cd2a3793a0cab52c70.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"Fintech","tags":["Fintech","Machine Learning","Finance","Sales Enablement","Automation"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29735"}}