Swiss wealth technology company Light Frame has raised US$5.1 million in a seed round led by Fortino Ventures.

The Lausanne-based firm develops core banking and portfolio management software for private banks and wealth managers.

Sidekick Partners, Tenity, Chamaeleon and AltaIR Capital joined the round, alongside existing investors Rogue Venture Partners, New Stack Ventures and Studio Alpha.

Institutional adoption of the platform is growing across EMEA, the company said, where it currently supports live client operations.

Light Frame says many wealth institutions still depend on decades-old systems that are slow to implement and costly to operate.

Its platform uses a cloud-native, API-first architecture designed around artificial intelligence.

It combines banking and investment functions with embedded AI tools intended to automate complex operations.

The modular design allows institutions to replace selected components of their existing infrastructure or adopt the complete system.

According to the company, this approach reduces implementation time, operational complexity and total cost of ownership.

Schuyler Weiss founded Light Frame in 2024 with Mathieu Clément, Philippe Kernevez and Gregory Bataille.

He previously founded and served as CEO of Alpian, a Swiss digital private bank, where Clément was COO and CIO.

“AI is redefining what technology can deliver, but the realisation of its potential in the wealth industry is dependent on the underlying infrastructure,”

said Schuyler Weiss, Co-founder and CEO at Light Frame.

“Schuyler and the team have run a regulated Swiss bank on the kind of infrastructure they are now replacing,”

said Hugh Phelan, Investment Manager at Fortino Ventures.

Light Frame plans to use the funding to develop its platform further, expand its implementation and client delivery capacity, and grow its commercial activities, initially in EMEA.

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