Wealthfront, the startup that helped popularize the robo-advisor style of automated investing, filed for a U.S. initial public offering Monday.

Seems like about a decade ago, everyone was buzzing about robo-advisors. The great financial disruptors. Technology in the driver’s seat. Human advisors in the back. Wealthfront, Betterment, SigFig, ...

Wealthfront Corp. was founded 17 years ago, in 2008. It is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and led by CEO David Fortunato. The company is one of a number of fintech firms that operate in the ...

Robo-advisers — digital platforms that use algorithms to help you manage your investments and do other financial planning tasks — are certainly popular, with more than $1.2 trillion in total client ...