Brown and White Ventures Invests in Finta to Scale AI-Powered Dealflow Infrastructure for Private Markets

Buffalo, N.Y. — Brown and White Ventures has announced an investment in Finta, an AI-powered workflow platform designed to modernize how private companies raise capital and manage relationship-driven deals.

The investment will support Finta’s efforts to scale its end-to-end dealflow infrastructure, which automates many of the most time-consuming aspects of private capital formation, including prospect research, investor outreach, warm introductions, and pipeline management.

Finta is built as an operating system for founders and private companies navigating complex fundraising and partnership processes. At the core of the platform is Aurora, Finta’s proprietary AI agent. Aurora helps teams identify aligned investors and partners, draft tailored outreach messages, map warm introduction pathways, and manage ongoing relationships through a structured, CRM-based workflow.

“Fundraising remains one of the most challenging, inefficient, and stressful processes that founders and operators go through,” said Jim Aroune, partner at Brown and White Ventures. “Finta is tackling that head-on with a platform that uses AI to reduce friction, save founders hundreds of hours, and increase the likelihood of capital access.”

Early traction points to growing demand for a fundraising-native solution. Through Aurora, Finta has supported the initiation of more than $745 million in new deals, tracked $535 million in capital, enabled the management of more than 21,000 investor relationships, and mapped over 20,000 warm introduction pathways designed to connect founders with investors through trusted networks.

“We started Finta because fundraising is too often a full-time job on top of building the company,” said Kevin Siskar, CEO of Finta. “Founders shouldn’t have to rely on disconnected tools and cold outbound alone. With Aurora, we’re giving founders a true capital copilot, one that helps them run a more strategic, organized, and effective raise.”

According to the company, the new capital will be used to accelerate product development, expand go-to-market initiatives, grow the team, and deepen strategic partnerships with organizations that support founders and private market participants. Finta also plans to continue expanding its functionality beyond venture capital into broader private market use cases.

“We’re thrilled to partner with Brown and White Ventures as we expand the platform and scale our reach,” said Finta co-founder Megan Kelly.

For founders across Western New York, including Buffalo, Rochester, and the Finger Lakes, platforms like Finta address a persistent regional challenge: access. While the region continues to produce strong companies across healthcare, manufacturing, software, and emerging technology, many founders operate outside dense venture networks and must spend disproportionate time building investor relationships from scratch.

For early-stage teams with limited resources, Finta’s automation also helps compress fundraising timelines. By consolidating prospect research, outreach, and pipeline management into a single system, founders can spend less time managing spreadsheets and disconnected tools and more time focused on building product, hiring, and serving customers.

As Western New York continues to invest in entrepreneurship and business formation, tools that reduce structural friction in capital access may play an increasingly important role in helping local founders compete at a national level.

For Brown and White Ventures, the investment aligns with its broader thesis around enabling more efficient business formation and growth across the private markets.

“Finta has the opportunity to become the system of record for how private capital is raised,” Aroune said. “The combination of workflow consolidation, proprietary AI capabilities, and a relationship intelligence layer makes this a compelling platform with significant potential to scale.”

Brown and White Ventures is a private, independent venture capital fund investing in healthcare and medical startups, manufacturing and technology-based companies, startups led by women and founders from underserved communities, and companies across Western New York, the Rochester and Finger Lakes region, and New York State. The firm contributes 10% of its net profits to St. Bonaventure University.

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