NEW YORK, April 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hamilton AI, an AI workflow and execution platform for personal aviation, in the present day introduced a partnership with Column, the nationally chartered financial institution constructed from the bottom up for software program corporations, to function the monetary spine of its rising platform.
The announcement follows Hamilton AI’s latest $7.5 million seed elevate and displays the rising urgency to modernize a $60 billion non-public aviation market that has lengthy been held again by fragmented, legacy expertise. Hamilton AI’s deterministic AI execution platform is designed to exchange these outdated techniques fully – and the Column partnership ensures monetary infrastructure is a part of the structure from day one, not retrofitted later.
By the partnership, Hamilton AI will embed Column’s programmable banking infrastructure straight into its operational layer. Banking Plus empowers operators with embedded monetary instruments designed across the realities of constitution and fleet operations. The brand new Market permits instantaneous settlement between prospects, eliminating the float and reconciliation delays which might be all too frequent in legacy aviation cost infrastructure. Dispatch goes additional nonetheless, as the primary end-to-end product that covers your complete operator workflow from result in touchdown, with monetary infrastructure woven in at each step. Collectively, these merchandise, backed by Column’s infrastructure, empower Hamilton’s prospects to serve native monetary capabilities with out the constraints of legacy banking.
“In Column we have a unique financial partner that forms the backbone of Hamilton AI’s financial infrastructure,” stated Wouter Witvoet, founder and CEO of Hamilton AI. “The team has been incredible to work with, pairing modern banking technology with the speed and flexibility that ambitious software companies need to move fast. Their infrastructure gives us the reliability of a bank built for the internet with the freedom to stay focused on building the systems that help organizations operate faster, smarter, and more autonomously.”
Column powers the financial infrastructure behind some of the most ambitious technology companies in the world, including Brex, Mercury, and Ramp. For Hamilton AI, the partnership means financial capabilities are built into the foundation of its platform, not bolted on later.
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“Hamilton AI represents exactly the kind of company we built Column for: ambitious, fast-moving, and determined to transform an entire industry,” stated Nick Rasines, Head of Gross sales and Partnerships. “Embedding monetary infrastructure straight into an AI-powered platform is the way forward for how companies will run, and we’re proud to be the banking infrastructure that makes that doable for Hamilton AI from day one.”
Hamilton AI’s platform is designed to help organizations automate and accelerate their operations through AI, and with Column as its financial infrastructure partner, the company is positioned to deliver on that promise at scale.
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Hamilton AI is an AI-powered execution platform for private aviation operators, centralizing fragmented workflows; quoting, scheduling, dispatch-adjacent operations, and compliance-sensitive processes, into a single deterministic system built for regulated, high-stakes environments. Founded in 2024, Hamilton serves U.S.-based commercial operators managing complex fleets, enabling faster execution, higher operational throughput, and auditable outcomes. Learn more at hamilton.ai.
About Column Column N.A. is a nationally chartered bank that provides regulated financial infrastructure for technology companies. Founded in 2019 by Plaid co-founder William Hockey, Column serves as the banking infrastructure for the world’s largest fintechs and financial institutions, including Brex, Mercury, Ramp, and Bilt. Learn more at column.com.
