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Childfree Trust

Childfree Trust sells a $999-a-year membership that creates estate documents and names a professional fiduciary team as medical and financial power of attorney, executor, and trustee for adults without children.

childfreetrust.com · Mount Juliet

CALL NO.CS·CHILDFREETRUST·26
StageSeedAugust 2025[6][8]
Raised$850,000disclosed rounds[6][8]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2025[6][9]
Money

Raised $850,000 across disclosed rounds.[6][8]

Seed closed August 2025.[6][8]

post-money valuation and the full investor list are not publicly disclosed.

People

Jay Zigmont, Founder and Chief Visionary (also listed as Founder and CEO)[2][5][9]

Maddy Roche, Chief Growth Officer[5][8][1]

Jonathan Carmona, Chief Technology Officer[5][8][1]

Mike Marchal, Director of Network Strategy & Security[5][8][1]

John Steiner, Founding Member and Managing Director, Welon Partners (named individual on Childfree Trust documents for medical and financial POA)[5][8][1]

Robert Allan, Founding Member and Managing Director, Welon Partners (named individual on Childfree Trust documents for medical and financial POA)[5][8][1]

Headcount: sources disagree
7as of Jun 2026

Childfree Trust® · Sep 2026[6]

Signals
Jul 25 2026otherChildfree Trust and Senior Planet from AARP run a four-part estate planning series for Childfree and Solo Agers[9]
Jun 16 2026newsChildfree Trust named a 2026 Wealth Management Industry Awards (Wealthies) finalist in its first year[8]
May 9 2026fundingChildfree Trust opens a $2 million raise to accredited investors[7]
Feb 19 2026newsFounder and Welon Trust principals describe the two-and-a-half-year build, the 752-page charter application, and the investor bias they hit raising capital[1][3]
Jan 5 2026launchChildfree Trust launches at CES 2026 with a "professional next of kin" platform and a white paper on the Childfree care crisis[2]
Comps

Welon Trust · welon.com · Not a competitor but the load-bearing dependency: Welon holds the trust charter, employs the named individuals on member documents, and supplies the trust administrators and on-call nurses who execute POA, executor, and trustee duties.[1][3]

EncorEstate Plans · encorestate.com · Same document-creation job to be done for the same advisor channel. Childfree Trust's own LinkedIn reshare names EncorEstate Plans as the tool introduced during an estate planning externship week, which places it in the same evaluation set for advisors...[6]

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Childfree Trust

CALL NO.CS·CHILDFREETRUST·26

Childfree Trust sells a $999-a-year membership that creates estate documents and names a professional fiduciary team as medical and financial power of attorney, executor, and trustee for adults without children.

childfreetrust.com · Mount Juliet

StageSeed
Raised$850,000
Headcount7
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2025
CompsWelon Trust +1

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