Alpaca (YC W19) — API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform
Alpaca is an API infrastructure and licensed financial services company that allows developers and businesses to offer stock and crypto investing to their end-customers. We work with more than 100 companies across the globe to enable their investing products, and our mission is to provide financial services to everyone on the planet.
Alpaca is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2019 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform. The founders listed are Yoshi Yokokawa (Founder/CEO), Hitoshi Harada (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 9, 2018).
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Alpaca is an API infrastructure and licensed financial services company that allows developers and businesses to offer stock and crypto investing to their end-customers. We work with more than 100 companies across the globe to enable their investing products, and our mission is to provide financial services to everyone on the planet.
Alpaca’s globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage business specialists and backed by a group of well-capitalized investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Unbound, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Y Combinator as well as highly experienced industry angel investors and founders. We are also very tech-enthusiastic with notable track records in open-source and startup communities.
Yoshi Yokokawa
Founder/CEO
Hitoshi Harada
Founder/CTO
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