BridgePort, a financial technology company that provides bespoke technology and infrastructure solutions to sophisticated clients across the private markets value chain, has partnered with ZEDRA, a global provider of fund administration, corporate and wealth services. The collaboration pairs ZEDRA’s multi-jurisdictional fund administration expertise with BridgePort’s all-digital, fully integrated technology to deliver a bespoke platform designed to future-proof ZEDRA’s infrastructure, providing the scalability, connectivity and flexibility required as private fund distribution increasingly shifts toward the wealth channel.

ZEDRA delivers comprehensive fund administration across asset classes and jurisdictions, with more than $140 billion in assets under fiduciary administration and over 1,100 fund managers serviced. Led by experienced Directors and supported by a fully integrated, cloud-based infrastructure, ZEDRA handles complex waterfalls, multi-entity structures and cross-border reporting with precision, transparency and direct accountability, for clients ranging from emerging managers to multibillion-dollar operations.

As the wealth channel’s allocation to private markets accelerates, with total private market assets estimated to grow from approximately $20 trillion today to over $32 trillion by 2030*, fund administrators face a structural shift: from serving dozens of institutional investors to serving thousands of investors, advisors, custodians and platforms. BridgePort’s agnostic, digital manifold is underpinned by a team with multiple decades of global financial experience, and powers solutions for a variety of private market constituents – from RIAs, OCIOs and Fund Managers; to ATS platforms, Administrators, Diligence and Liquidity providers.

The new platform provides ZEDRA’s fund manager clients with intuitive, all-digital subscriptions and capital transactions; embedded KYC onboarding with continuous screening; branded manager portals featuring customizable data rooms and digital syndication tools; and centralized dashboards that aggregate investor accounting, data, documents and reporting across applications and jurisdictions. AI-assisted enhancements to data pipelines, investor onboarding, reconciliations and reporting are planned for upcoming releases.

Andrew Dipkin, Head of Funds, Americas at ZEDRA, said “there is a fundamental mismatch between traditional fund operations and the demands of wealth channel distribution. Processes designed for 30–40 institutional investors simply don’t scale to 2,000 investors writing $50K–$250K checks across dozens of advisors, custodians, and reporting platforms. The economics, data complexity, and operational handoffs have changed dramatically, but the infrastructure has not kept pace. Our partnership with BridgePort allows us to close that gap for our clients.”

BridgePort’s founder and CEO, Christopher Nero, noted that “fund administrators sit at the center of the private investment ecosystem, and the wealth channel is changing what they need to deliver. ZEDRA recognized early that the next phase of growth depends on infrastructure, not simply headcount. We are excited to partner with a firm of ZEDRA’s global reach, depth of expertise and client-first approach, as we work together to bring the speed, transparency and connectivity investors expect from public markets to private market investing.”

About Bridgeport Financial Technology

BridgePort’s fully digitized ecosystem enables key industry constituents to leverage data, create dynamic and compelling investment products, enjoy a more fluid transaction and reporting environment, and gain an unprecedented level of scale and efficiency for private market investing and distribution. The company’s agnostic technology and infrastructure, underpinned by multiple decades of global financial experience, powers custom private investment platforms, access vehicles, syndication portals and operations-as-a-service for a multitude of sophisticated clients across the private market spectrum.

For more information, please www.bridgeportft.com

About ZEDRA

ZEDRA is a global provider of Funds, Corporate, and Wealth solutions, with more than 30 offices worldwide across 17 jurisdictions and over 20 years of experience. ZEDRA administers more than $140 billion in assets under fiduciary administration, services over 1,100 fund managers and reports to more than 15,000 investors. Its proprietary platforms enable scenario modelling, automated reconciliations and robust investor portal access, scaling from emerging managers to multibillion-dollar operations.

For more information, please visit www.zedra.com

*Source: 1. Preqin Private Markets Report 2030 (Includes private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate, hedge funds, and natural resources)

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