What Patrina does

Patrina Corporation is a privately held US financial-services technology company headquartered in Goshen, New York, that provides compliance archiving and CRM software to financial advisors, broker-dealers, and registered investment advisors (RIAs). The company operates two product lines: (1) Singular by Patrina, a CRM platform launched in 2025 that combines client relationship management, pipeline management, omnichannel communications, custodian data integration, and analytics with built-in compliance workflows; and (2) the Patrina Compliance Suite, a modular set of eight tools covering policy management, branch office audits, message archiving and supervision, complaint reporting, outside business activities tracking, marketing material review, political contribution tracking, and gift and expense reporting. Both lines are anchored on SEC 17a-4 compliant cloud archiving infrastructure and are designed to satisfy FINRA Rules 2210, 3220, and 4530. The company has been designated a FINRA Preferred Pricing Vendor on a recurring basis and has operated since 1992.

Underlying the products is a cloud-based platform with integrations spanning Plaid (custodian balances and holdings), BackNine (insurance quote and apply), LinkedIn, Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, Calendly, Zapier, Fireflies.ai, Holistiplan, and Dropbox, providing an omnichannel communications and compliance surface for advisors and their compliance teams. Patrina sells on a monthly subscription basis with no auto-renewing annual contracts; archival services start at $60/month, the platform carries a 99.99% host server availability SLA, and the company emphasizes no exit fees and customer-owned data. Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales targeting mid-market and enterprise financial firms in the United States, with leadership comprising CEO Mark Opila and CTO Bernhard Sebesta across a 11–50 person organization. Revenue is not disclosed, and the company is founder-owned with no external institutional investment, funding rounds, or parent-subsidiary structure on record.

Name

Patrina

Legal name

Patrina Corporation

Website

https://patrina.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Patrina Corporation provides a CRM platform (Singular) and a modular compliance suite for financial advisors, broker-dealers, and RIAs. Its SEC 17a-4 compliant archiving and FINRA-aligned workflow modules serve US mid-market and enterprise financial firms on monthly subscriptions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Compliance Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Wealth Platforms for Advisors (TAMP/Advisor Tech) (FSAGAEAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Customer Engagement, CRM & Agent/Broker Enablement Platforms (FSAGAGAD)

Keywords

• Compliance archiving software
• Financial services CRM
• SEC 17a-4 compliance
• FINRA compliance tools
• Broker-dealer compliance

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Compliance Archiving Services: Monthly subscription-based compliant message and record archiving services for financial firms meeting SEC 17a-4 requirements. Services include email archiving, SMS/text archiving, and social media communication capture.
2. Singular CRM Platform: Comprehensive CRM platform with integrated compliance tools for financial advisors and broker-dealers, combining client management with compliance workflows.
3. Compliance Software Modules: Individual compliance modules including Policy Management, Branch Audits, Complaint Tracking, OBA Reporting, Marketing Material Repository, Political Contribution Tracking, and Gift & Entertainment Reporting available as part of compliance suite.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Patrina sells Singular by Patrina, a CRM platform built specifically for financial advisors and broker-dealers that combines client management, pipeline tracking, integrated communications, and custodian integration with built-in compliance workflows. Alongside Singular, Patrina offers a Compliance Suite of modular tools for SEC 17a-4 compliant record archiving, email/SMS/social media message archiving, branch audits, complaint reporting, OBA tracking, marketing material review, political contribution tracking, and gift reporting, delivered on a subscription SaaS basis.

Product overview

Patrina offers a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on two main product lines: (1) Singular by Patrina, a comprehensive CRM platform for financial advisors and broker-dealers that combines client management with integrated compliance tools including pipeline management, communications, analytics, and custodian integration; and (2) the Patrina Compliance Suite, a modular compliance archiving platform consisting of eight integrated modules covering Policy and Procedure Management, Branch Office Audits, Message Archiving and Supervision, Complaint Reporting, Outside Business Activities, Marketing Material Repository, Political Contribution Tracking, and Gift & Expense Reporting. Both product lines are designed for the financial services industry and meet SEC 17a-4 and FINRA compliance requirements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Singular: Comprehensive CRM platform built specifically for the financial services industry, combining client management features with compliance workflows. Integrates with platforms like Plaid and BackNine Insurance.
• Singular by Patrina

Products and services

• Singular by Patrina Comprehensive CRM platform built specifically for the financial services industry that combines client management, pipeline management, integrated communications (email, SMS, LinkedIn), custodian integration via Plaid, analytics and reporting, and compliance workflows for RIAs and broker-dealers.
• Compliant Record Archiving SEC 17a-4 compliant cloud record archiving service with fast access to data and simple onboarding, priced as low as $60/month, serving financial firms' long-term retention requirements.
• Compliant Message Archiving Message archiving platform for email, SMS, and social media communications with customizable flagging lexicons, legal holds, and audit trails for regulatory compliance.
• Myrepchat Text Message Archiving Mobile text message archiving solution providing regulatory-compliant capture, supervision, and review workflows for SMS communications.
• Compliant Data Archiving & Capture Solution Enterprise-grade compliant data archiving and capture solution for long-term retention and regulatory compliance across financial services firms.
• Enterprise Record Management Services Comprehensive enterprise record management services for financial services compliance, providing long-term retention, access, and governance for regulated records.
• Policy and Procedure Management Centralized policy and procedure management tool that stores compliance documentation in one secure location and automates workflows for revisions and acceptance across the firm.
• Branch Office Audits Branch office audit tool that prepares broker-dealers for branch, OSJ, or satellite office inspections using a full library of audit questions and step-by-step pre-audit through post-audit workflows.
• Message Archiving and Supervision Supervision workflow tool for reviewing, flagging, and supervising email, SMS, and social media communications, with automated alerts for potential risks and customizable supervision policies.
• Complaint Reporting Complaint tracking and management module that enables users to submit complaints for compliance review with built-in workflows for reporting, escalation, tracking, and resolution.
• Outside Business Activities (OBA) Tracking Outside Business Activities reporting and tracking module that lets employees submit OBAs for compliance review, with automatic notifications for edits or resubmissions and real-time status tracking.
• Marketing Material Repository Marketing material repository that streamlines submission, review, and distribution of marketing materials with targeting by risk profile and investment experience, plus sunset dates for FINRA Rule 2210 compliance.
• Political Contribution Tracking Political contribution tracking module that automates submission, approval, and tallying of political contributions for compliance with cooling-off period requirements.
• Gift & Expense Reporting Gift and expense reporting module that automates submission, approval, tracking, and tallying of gifts and entertainment to enforce FINRA Rule 3220 thresholds.

Quantifiable outcome

• Archive data as low as $60/month for 17a-4 compliance
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Feature13 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• BackNinecoreTechnology or Integration · 13 December 2025Integration of Singular CRM with BackNine's Quote & Apply platform enables advisors to generate quotes, submit applications, and maintain compliance within their CRM, streamlining insurance workflows for financial advisors.
• BackNinecoreTechnology or Integration · 13 December 2025Integration partnership announced December 2025 integrating Singular CRM with BackNine's Quote & Apply platform for unified insurance and compliance workflow management.
• PlaidcoreTechnology or IntegrationPlaid integration enables investment professionals to gain holistic view of clients' financial holdings including account balances, holdings, and transactions across banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges, credit unions, and retirement providers.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• BackNine: Insurance quoting and application platform integrated with Patrina's Singular CRM (announced December 2025). Listed as a peer because it is an integrated partner in Patrina's ecosystem and an adjacent workflow vendor to the same advisor buyer.
• HubSpot: General-purpose CRM and marketing platform often adopted by small and mid-sized RIAs as a lower-cost alternative to advisor-specific tools like Singular. Indirect competitor on the CRM front where compliance requirements are lighter.

Broad incumbents

• NICE Actimize: Large-scale compliance, surveillance, and risk platform serving broker-dealers and global financial institutions. Competes with Patrina in the supervision and compliance monitoring layer, especially at enterprise scale.
• Salesforce Financial Services Cloud: Broad enterprise CRM platform with a financial services vertical offering. Competes with Singular CRM at larger broker-dealers and wealth managers that prefer a general-purpose platform over a niche compliance-CRM hybrid.
• Orion Advisor Tech: Broad wealthtech platform offering CRM, portfolio accounting, and advisor workflows. Competes with Patrina across the advisor tech stack, particularly for larger RIAs seeking an integrated platform.

Direct peers

• Smarsh: Direct competitor providing SEC/FINRA-compliant archiving and communication supervision for financial services firms. Closely overlaps with Patrina's email, SMS, and social media archiving modules and targets the same broker-dealer and RIA buyer.
• Global Relay: Direct competitor offering compliant message archiving and supervision for regulated industries including broker-dealers and investment advisors. Competes head-to-head with Patrina on 17a-4 archiving and supervision workflows.
• Redtail CRM: CRM platform purpose-built for financial advisors, competing directly with Patrina's Singular CRM product for the same advisor persona. Overlaps on client management, pipeline, and workflow automation for RIAs and broker-dealers.
• Wealthbox: CRM designed for financial advisors with workflow, contact, and pipeline management. Competes with Patrina's Singular CRM in the same RIA/independent advisor segment.

Emerging players

• Theta Lake: Emerging AI-native compliance and archiving vendor focused on modern communication channels (Zoom, Teams, Webex, chat). Represents the next-generation competitor to Patrina's supervision modules, particularly for firms modernizing from legacy archiving.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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