AIQ has raised $5m in series A financing from Penton Media, Rory Curran and Peter Wilson-Smith.

AIQ, a US-based publisher of the Meridian-IQ suite of Financial Advisor directories, has raised $5m in its series A round from a consortium including peer Penton Media.

The other investors are angels Rory Curran, founder and former CEO of UK-based financial advisor software company 1st Software, and Peter Wilson-Smith, founder of news provider Financial News.