Aaron Klein’s career has largely been at the intersection of finance and technology. As co-founder and CEO at Riskalyze, he has led the company to twice being named one of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies in finance by Fast Company Magazine. The Auburn-based fintech startup has raised over $23 million in funding and private equity firm Hg recently bought controlling interest in Riskalyze in a deal reportedly valued at over $300 million.
StartupSac and the Carlsen Center at Sac State welcomed Aaron to Startup Happy Hour during Global Entrepreneurship Week to share his entrepreneurial story and lessons he has learned along the way. In an interview led by StartupSac co-founder Laura Good, Aaron shared stories of his previous startups, the inspiration for Riskalye along with his multi-year customer validation process and pivots, his views on the critical nature of company culture and the challenges of maintaining the culture through rapid growth, and much more. Check out the recording below.
About Riskalyze
Riskalyze is an Auburn-based fintech startup that provides software as a service to financial advisors in the United States. Their platform provides tools for analyzing investment risk, delivering 401(k) plans, and building and implementing investment portfolios. Riskalyze invented the Risk Number®, an alignment tool for financial advisors to quantitatively measure investor risk tolerance, risk capacity, and portfolio risk on a scale from 1 to 99.
