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Estate settlement, from verified discovery to distribution
Elayne is building the modern estate settlement platform. Estate settlement is a $250B+ annual market, with $80T+ in assets expected to transfer over the next 25 years. But after a death, families and executors have to spend 400+ hours manually identifying, organize, and distribute everything that was left behind like: financial accounts, debts, property, insurance, legal documents, incorporating juristidi ation requirements and family context. Elayne is the first platform to surface verified assets and debts for precisely this moment, then turing our discovery into a clear inheritance map. We work directly with families and executors, and with the partners who support them: funeral homes, hospice and aftercare providers, attorneys, and financial institutions. The company was founded by Adria, a former large-cap investor who experienced the problem firsthand, and Rebecca, a repeat fintech and mental health founder who left her master’s program in psychology at Harvard to launch Elayne. Together, they bring financial rigor, technical execution, and lived empathy to a massive but deeply human category. Backed by Y Combinator and Accel, we are now an 8-person team based in NYC.
Elayne offers an estate settlement service that takes over discovery, probate handling, and distribution, aiming to reduce time and cost for families. It acts as a guided, end-to-end admin partner through the estate settlement process, including finding accounts and coordinating with attorneys when needed.
Elayne builds an estate roadmap from user-uploaded documents (death certificate, will, trust, etc.), searches across 50+ financial categories to locate accounts, and manages probate, trust administration, and distribution. It handles paperwork, calls, deadlines, and coordination with attorneys or CPAs as needed, with an option to bring in a user’s own attorney or use partners at a discount. The platform emphasizes end-to-end admin support, data security, and updates through final distribution.
Who it’s for: Families and executors seeking to settle estates who want end-to-end administrative support and cost savings by reducing attorney time and busywork.
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Co-founder / CEO at Elayne. Former large-cap private equity investor. Wharton grad.
CTO at Elayne, building AI tools to accelerate and simplify the estate settlement process. She previously founded Juicebox and Cashmere Finance. In her early career, she worked at companies of all growth stages, including Facebook, Retool, and Affirm. She attended Harvard University and Rice University, studying Psychology, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science.
We give back 400 hours to grieving employees, boosting their recovery and return to work.
Elayne offers a platform for family estate planning and automated settlements to support bereaved employees and their employers. It provides estate-readiness tools, an automated settlement process that saves about 400 hours over 18 months, and HR-focused features like immediate response, workshops, and dashboards for utilization and cost savings.
Formerly “Elayne AI”
Find and move money after a death
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