Carefull, an AI-powered financial safety platform that helps banks and wealth advisors protect aging customers from scams and money mistakes, announced that it has closed its Series A round with $16.5 million in funding.
The investment round was “led by Fin Capital and joined by Bessemer Venture Partners, TTV Capital, Commerce Ventures, Montage Ventures, and Alloy Labs, bringing the company’s total funding to $19.7 million.”
Carefull is the financial ecosystem’s first Protect-Retain-Transfer (PRT) provider: a tech solution that “enables banks, financial advisors, and insurers to protect older adults – their most valuable and vulnerable customers – from outside threats and even their own money mistakes, while the institution retains their assets and deposits for longer and builds relationships with next-generation family members ahead of wealth transfer.”
Carefull actively scans all customer account types “for over 50 financial and behavioral issues unique to aging, catching unusual activity, suspicious patterns, and even bigger problems like financial exploitation by a loved one or signs of cognitive decline.”
The platform also “integrates identity, credit and home title monitoring; $1M in identity theft insurance; a password and document vault; and a smarter Trusted Contacts system for banks to gain “share of family” in addition to share of wallet.”
Todd Rovak, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Carefull, said:
“There are now 45 million people across the country who are tasked with managing an aging loved one’s money, and older Americans lose $37 billion annually to fraud and money mistakes. The growing role of the financial institution to help families here cannot be understated.”
Carefull Co-founder and Co-CEO Max Goldman said:
“Banks, wealth advisors, and financia ..
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