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Light Frame, a Lausanne, Switzerland-based provider of core banking and portfolio management software for the wealth industry, has closed an oversubscribed $5.1 million Seed round. Fortino Ventures led the round, with participation from Sidekick Partners, Tenity, Chamaeleon, and Altair Capital, alongside existing investors Rogue Venture Partners, New Stack Ventures, and Studio Alpha.
The company's platform combines banking and investment capabilities on a cloud-native, API-first architecture designed around artificial intelligence. Its modular design lets private banks and wealth managers replace individual components of their legacy infrastructure or adopt the full system, with the aim of cutting implementation timelines, operational complexity, and total cost of ownership. Light Frame was founded in 2024 by Schuyler Weiss, founder and former CEO of Swiss cloud-native private bank Alpian, along with Alpian's former COO and CIO Mathieu Clรฉment and technologists Philippe Kernevez and Gregory Bataille.
Many wealth institutions still run on core systems built decades ago, which can slow the adoption of new tools, including AI. A founding team that has operated a regulated Swiss bank brings direct experience with those constraints. The new capital will fund platform development, expand implementation and client delivery capacity, and grow commercial activity, initially focused on EMEA, where Light Frame already supports live client operations.
Knote: A solid, VC-led seed round out of Europe. If you want to win new platform clients, modularity is the key.
