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Alpaca
API for stock and crypto trading
- 201-500 employees
- Fintech
- B2B
- Cryptocurrency
- Trading
- SaaS
- API
- Downtown, San Mateo, CA
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Company mission
To unlock asset management for the people by modularising the world’s asset management activities.
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% female employees
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Alpaca offers a developer-first API for stock trading. It enables companies to offer short-stock trading both worldwide and competitively commission-free across various programming languages. Within one year of launch Alpaca facilitated over $1 billion in transactions.
This is impressive, but not surprising. Fintech apps that facilitate stock trading on a level previously inaccessible to retail investors are on the rise. Alpaca puts this software within reach of companies who may previously have lacked the ability or the tech to do so. However, competition is growing, both from existing competitors like Interactive Brokers and Robinhood and robustly funded startups like Galileo and DriveWealth.
Alpaca now has the funding, including a round of convertible debt financing, available to scale its offering to larger businesses, and is looking further afield to work with international customers to earn income from foreign exchange fees. Whilst competition is strong in stock-trading APIs, casting their net wide could win Alpaca a head start.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
- Work with awesome people, clients and partners from around the world
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2023
$15m
CONVERTIBLE
Aug 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $86.9m
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Leadership
Hitoshi Harada
(CPO)Former Database Kernel Architect at pivotal Inc and contributor at PostgreSQL Global development Group. Graduated from Keio University.
Yoshi Yokokawa
(CEO)Co-founder of Ikkyo Technology and former Forex Trader. Former Vice-President at Nomura.