Investment Management Operations Ryan Eisenman, Co-Founder & CEO – Arch (EP.65)
Dec 2, 2025
In this engaging discussion, Ryan Eisenman, Co-founder and CEO of Arch, outlines his journey in building a groundbreaking tech platform for limited partners. He shares insights on the evolution of Arch from automating K-1 collection to becoming a digital hub for private investments. Ryan highlights the importance of client-obsessed culture, in-office dynamics, and AI-driven solutions. He also discusses trends in private markets, the vision of integrating tools for seamless experiences, and creative ways to engage clients, like tax season K-1 cookies!
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Lost Coca‑Cola Certificate Sparked Arch
- Ryan received Coca-Cola shares at 12 and lost the certificate, exposing how manual investing used to be.
- That experience and later work in wealth management sparked the idea for a Schwab-like private markets platform.
Portals To Actionable Data
- Arch aggregates documents from dozens of fund portals, digitizes them, and exports data via APIs to downstream systems.
- They layer AI summaries and fraud detection to turn static files into searchable, actionable data.
K‑1s Were The First Product Focus
- For the first months Arch focused solely on collecting K-1s as the initial product offering.
- They marketed heavily around K-1 pain, even giving out branded hats reading "got K1s" to spark conversations.
