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BuildingValuationBacked October 2026

fino

Founded by Richard Bernard

A platform built for valuation teams that connects each engagement's documents, information requests, staffing, deadlines, reviews and deliverables, with AI-assisted setup, so the work and the context behind it live in one system.

What they do

Before a valuation goes out, a team has to coordinate documents, information requests, staffing, deadlines, reviews and deliverables, and most firms run those across spreadsheets, email and shared drives. fino brings them into one platform and keeps the key assumptions and rationale with each valuation, so what a firm learned on one engagement carries into the next.

Who it's for

Valuation and advisory firms, and the teams that run their engagements.

What's different

It's built around valuation work rather than generic tasks or sales pipelines. Spreadsheets, project-management tools, CRMs and valuation software each cover part of an engagement, and fino's case is that none of them connects the people, documents, deadlines and decisions behind a conclusion.


What they've done, with sources

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Every Fifth Star company gets the same $25,000 check.

Contributions go into the fund that writes them. If fino exits one day, our share comes back to the fund and goes out again, which is what makes us an evergreen fund.

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