BridgeWise, an Israeli company that sells AI investment analysis to banks and brokers, said on 17 February 2026 that it had acquired Context Analytics, a Chicago firm that turns unstructured financial text into data. The announcement was made from New York.
The companies did not disclose the price. Calcalist's tech site Ctech estimated it at about $13 million.
BridgeWise said Context Analytics' data will feed pAI, a new AI wealth agent it is launching that builds, reviews and adjusts individual investment portfolios through a conversational interface. The companies did not say whether Context Analytics will keep selling its data products under its own name.
What Context Analytics built
Context Analytics uses natural language processing and its own models to convert news, social media posts and long regulatory filings into numbers that trading and investment systems can use, including timely sentiment scores. Its products give real-time and historical signals that investors use to gauge sentiment, find trading signals and manage risk.
BridgeWise said the firm's customers include tier-one financial institutions such as S&P Global Market Intelligence. Ctech described Context Analytics as an AI company that specialises in processing alternative data, including news sentiment, social media activity and complex documents.
Joe Gits, Context Analytics' chief executive, said joining BridgeWise would let the company realise the full potential of what it had built over the last 13 years. He said that combining Context Analytics' ability to read unstructured financial text and sentiment with BridgeWise's AI would create a single engine linking raw information to investment decisions.
“Joining BridgeWise allows us to realize the full potential of what we've built over the last 13 years.”
Why BridgeWise is buying
BridgeWise's own platform produces analysis and recommendations on more than 70,000 listed assets in many languages, mostly from structured financial data. Adding Context Analytics gives it text and sentiment data, so it can offer what it calls a single system that runs from raw data processing through analysis to client engagement.
The company argues that banks and brokers are wary of general-purpose AI models for investment decisions because they need explainable, auditable output in a regulated setting. It pitches its own models as a transparent alternative built for the industry.
Gaby Diamant, BridgeWise's chief executive, said the combination would unify the intelligence process, from the language processing that decodes raw text to what end users need, while keeping the AI analysis compliant and explainable. He described the deal as a change in how financial institutions use data and analysis in their day-to-day client services.
The buyer and the funding
BridgeWise was founded in 2019 by Gabriel Diamant, Dor and Or Eligula and Mor Hazan, and has raised $35 million to date, Ctech reported. It has offices in Israel, the United States, the UK, Japan, Singapore, Brazil, Thailand and Dubai.
Its products include AI-driven analysis of equities and funds, multilingual research tools and an AI chat service for investment questions, all built to meet financial regulators' requirements, according to the company. Its platform is already used by financial institutions in Asia, Europe and South America.
The company says it provides investment analysis to more than 50 institutional clients and 25 million end users in more than 15 languages. Its partners include Japan Exchange Group, SIX, B3, eToro, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and Rakuten Securities.
Context Analytics' funding history and headcount were not reported, and neither company said how many of its staff will join BridgeWise.
What pAI is meant to do
BridgeWise described pAI as an AI agent that banks, brokers and trading platforms can offer to their own clients. It is meant to handle onboarding and build portfolios that adjust automatically as markets and investor needs change, so that institutions can give many users individual advice without adding staff.
Context Analytics' data will be fed directly into pAI's orchestration engine, BridgeWise said. The company did not give a launch date or name the first institutions to use the agent.
