Hamilton AI Teams with Bank To Grow Air Charter Platform

Hamilton AI has teamed up with the nationally chartered bank Column to expand its AI-based workflow and execution platform for private aviation. Under the agreement, Hamilton AI will embed Column’s programmable banking infrastructure into its platform, enabling a Banking Plus feature with financial tools designed for air charter and fleet operations.

These tools include a marketplace function that will provide instant settlement between the customer and operator and eliminate the float or reconciliation delays frequently found with legacy air charter payment systems. In addition, the Hamilton AI platform will have a dispatch feature, providing end-to-end services for the operator workflow, from lead to landing.

Backed by Column’s infrastructure, these features will enable the platform to provide financial capabilities without the constraints of legacy banking, according to Hamilton AI.

“In Column, we have a unique financial partner that forms the backbone of Hamilton AI’s financial infrastructure,” said 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.”

The partnership with Column comes shortly after Hamilton AI raised $7.5 million in seed money through fundraising led by TTV Capital. That money will help Hamilton AI accelerate the development of the platform.

The San Francisco-based software company was formed in 2024 with the vision of building out a platform that can replace outdated tools to help private aviation operators automate and accelerate operations through AI.

Hamilton said the partnership, coupled with the seed money, “reflects the growing urgency to modernize a $60 billion private aviation market that has long been held back by fragmented, legacy technology.”

“Hamilton AI represents exactly the kind of company we built Column for: ambitious, fast-moving, and determined to transform an entire industry,” said Nick Rasines, head of sales and partnerships for Column. “Embedding financial infrastructure directly into an AI-powered platform is the future of how businesses will run.”