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BridgeWise platform expands across data, asset classes, global markets

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New York, July 6, 2026

BridgeWise Builds Momentum as AI Wealth Intelligence Platform Expands Across Data, Asset Classes and Global Markets

BridgeWise has entered 2026 with a series of announcements that have rapidly broadened its role in the global investment intelligence industry. Across acquisitions, data partnerships, platform integrations and new alternative data products, BridgeWise has moved to deepen its AI capabilities while extending its reach across asset classes, markets and investor workflows.

A defining moment came with BridgeWise’s acquisition of Context Analytics, the Chicago-based AI-powered alternative data company used by tier-one financial firms. The deal brought Context Analytics’ ability to process unstructured data from news, social media, earnings calls and regulatory filings into BridgeWise’s existing platforms. In doing so, BridgeWise has positioned itself as a vertically integrated provider of wealth-native intelligence, spanning data ingestion, analytics and end-user engagement. The acquisition also strengthened the company’s emphasis on explainable, compliant AI at a time when financial institutions are reassessing the risks of general-purpose AI in regulated investment environments.

BridgeWise has also expanded its fund intelligence capabilities through a partnership with Ultumus, a specialist provider of ETF and index data infrastructure. By integrating Ultumus’ ETF datasets into FundWise, BridgeWise is adding more than 800 additional funds in Europe and more than 3,000 globally to its coverage. The partnership enables broader and more granular ETF analysis across regions, asset classes and markets where data has often been fragmented. For banks, brokers and trading platforms, this means a clearer and more consistent way to deliver ETF insights to both private and institutional investors.

Its partnership with Alpaca reflects another important strand of collaboration, BridgeWise’s multilingual AI analysis of more than 70,000 global securities is being made available to the hundreds of brokerages, banks and financial institutions that build on Alpaca’s Broker API. The combination creates an intelligence-to-execution experience, pairing BridgeWise’s explanatory investment insights with Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure across asset types.

In April, BridgeWise progressed in alternative data through a strategic partnership with X. The collaboration integrates X’s real-time global data stream into BridgeWise’s intelligence engine, allowing the company to generate social sentiment insights for thousands of securities. Powered by BridgeWise’s SentimentWise solution and strengthened by the Context Analytics acquisition, the offering helps institutions and hedge funds monitor shifts in market mood, identify emerging trends and convert social conversation into a structured investment signal.

That alternative data strategy has continued with Context Analytics’ launch of a first-of-its-kind Podcast Sentiment Analysis Feed. The product turns financial and business podcast content into ticker-level sentiment scores, adding audio to the company’s coverage of news, filings and social media for the first time. By analysing podcast transcripts and generating sentiment metrics, summaries and company tagging, the feed opens a previously difficult-to-measure narrative to investors and research teams.

BridgeWise also announced pAI this year, its AI Wealth Agent designed to bring personalized portfolio guidance to investors at scale. The product combines portfolio analysis, portfolio building and optimization, supporting a more continuous and adaptive wealth journey across investor goals, market conditions and stages of life.

The large-scale announcements of 2026 already show BridgeWise building momentum on several fronts - from expanding coverage, strengthening proprietary data capabilities, deepening institutional partnerships and moving beyond traditional investment research into a broader intelligence infrastructure model, BridgeWise is positioning itself as a category-defining platform for AI-led financial intelligence.

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About BridgeWise

BridgeWise is the global leader in AI for wealth, transforming how investors and institutions access and act on financial insights. Using regulatory-compliant, transparent AI to power equity and fund analysis, multilingual tools, and even AI chat for investments, BridgeWise provides trusted investment intelligence to over 100 institutional clients and 35 million end users across more than 15 languages. With offices in Japan, Singapore, the US, London, Brazil, Thailand, Israel, and Dubai, BridgeWise partners with leading global institutions, including S&P Global Market Intelligence, Japan Exchange Group, SIX, B3, eToro, TASE, and Rakuten Securities.

Learn more about BridgeWise here.

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