Finalis

Finalis is a financial technology company providing an AI-powered dealmaking platform and regulatory affiliation services for investment bankers, M&A advisors and placement agents. Its platform, the Finalis Hub, is an integrated private securities brokerage technology stack that embeds compliance into deal workflows, centralizes regulated communications, automates parts of deal execution, and supports transaction types including M&A, capital raises, debt facilities and private placements, as well as fintech marketplaces and alternative investment sponsors.

Finalis positions itself as an "AI system of record" for private capital: because its regulatory infrastructure requires deal data and documents to be captured at the source, the company says transactional data becomes structured first-party intelligence rather than manually uploaded files. Product areas cited include virtual data rooms, deal management, AI document review, compliance and record-keeping tooling, a dealmaker marketplace for collaboration, and Deal Match, an AI tool that routes deals to capital allocators such as growth equity funds, search funds, independent sponsors and venture funds. The company reports that platform use reduces compliance review times by more than 60%.

Its stated ecosystem metrics have grown over time: 700 active mandates and 150 supported investment banks and placement agencies in the US as of mid-2022; roughly 1,100 active users, 1,700+ active deals, 8,000+ ecosystem users and $20bn in closed deal volume as of mid-2025; and 900+ bankers across 24 countries with $22bn+ in closed deals as of August 2025.

Founding story

Federico Baradello founded Finalis in 2020 after working as an M&A associate at Kirkland & Ellis on middle-market technology buyouts for private equity sponsors and supporting cross-border investments at a London-based private equity firm. He has described the founding motivation as the contrast between advising on advanced technology deals while relying on a decades-old tech stack, and the fragmented, manual and opaque nature of private capital markets compliance; his thesis was to embed compliance into workflows and capture first-party data. His education includes a JD from UC Berkeley, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard, Public Policy and International Affairs at Princeton, and government PhD study at the London School of Economics. He has taught corporate law and regulation at Hult International Business School and is a limited partner at Argentine venture firm Alaya Capital.

Business model

Finalis operates a B2B model combining software subscriptions with regulatory affiliation services. Smaller advisory firms affiliate their regulatory licenses with Finalis's broker-dealer platform and run the deal lifecycle on-platform, consolidating records required by regulators. Customer profiles described include subscription SaaS, services and consulting, and payment processing fees.

Hybrid revenue model combining SaaS subscription fees for the core platform with success-based components tied to transactions facilitated through the network, plus payment processing fees and consulting/services revenue. The company has also begun monetizing data through dashboards, matching tools and premium intelligence products.

Latest developments

In June 2025 the company reported 1,100+ active users, 1,700+ active deals and $20bn in closed deal volume, and said it ranked top 14 in the US and top 21 globally in closed transactions among investment banks in Q1 2025 by its own count. In August 2025 it reported 900+ bankers across 24 countries, 8,000+ ecosystem users and $22bn+ in closed deals, and described the launch of Deal Match, an AI tool routing deals to capital allocators, alongside partnerships with bulge-bracket banks. Later firmographic signals record the platform serving over 600 member firms as of January 2026 and the addition of Monetavista as a customer in May 2026.