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| 21.07.2026 | Alpaca Launches German Equities Trading via Deutsche Börse Xetra | Alpaca, a global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure, today announced that its broker partners can now offer trading in German equities through Deutsche Börse Xetra, providing access to one of Europe’s largest equity markets.
The... |
| 18.07.2026 | Alpaca Secures $135M to Drive AI, Tokenization, and Global Brokerage Infrastructure | Alpaca secured $135 million in new financing. This brings its total capital, including debt, to $435 million. The funding fuels aggressive expansion of its agent-first brokerage infrastructure. Alpaca targets AI-native financial services, t... |
| 17.07.2026 | Opera Tech Ventures backs Alpaca again | Opera Tech Ventures Opera Tech Ventures
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Headquarters: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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| 16.07.2026 | Kind Designs Raises $10M in Pre-Series A Funding | Kind Designs, a Miami, FL-based climate resilience company, raised $10M in Pre-Series A funding, at a $70M valuation.
Backers included Kyle Kuzma, Mark Cuban and Adrian Fenty.
The raise brought the total amount to date to $21.5M.
The compan... |
| 16.07.2026 | Alpaca Bags $135M Financing Round |
NEW YORK, NY, Alpaca, a global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure, today announced a $135 million raise led by Peak XV, with major participation from Elefund.
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| 16.07.2026 | Alpaca Raises $135 Million To Scale Agent-First Brokerage Infrastructure | Alpaca has raised $135 million to expand its brokerage infrastructure for tokenized markets, agentic trading and AI-native financial services. Peak XV Partners led the round, with significant participation from Elefund. Additional new and r... |
| 16.07.2026 | Alpaca Raises $135M in Funding | Alpaca, a NYC-based agent-first brokerage infrastructure company, raised $135M in funding.
The round was led by Peak XV, with participation from Elefund, Opera Tech Ventures and Unbound.
The financing followed Alpaca’s $150M Series D announ... |
| 16.07.2026 | Lendistry Secures $100M Credit Facility from East West Bank | Lendistry, a Los Angeles, California-based small business lender and certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), secured a $100m credit facility from East West Bank.
The financing package includes a $100m accordion feature... |
| 07.07.2026 | Alpaca Completes EEA Passporting to 29 Countries, Expanding Access to Regulated Investment Services Across Europe | Alpaca, a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs, today announced that it has completed the process to passport its regulated and localized investment services across 29 countries in the EEA (European Economic Area) through its Spai... |
| 13.05.2026 | Gogi Launches Agent-Ready Investment Interface for the Future of Finance | IMPORTANT NOTICE
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| 05.05.2026 | DTCC Advances Development of Tokenization Service, Brings Together 50+ Firms to Enable Digital Assets Adoption | On May 4, 2026, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced major headway in building a new tokenization platform through its subsidiary, The Depository Trust Company (DTC). More than 50 financial organizations from bot... |
| 24.04.2026 | Alpaca Expands into European Markets with WealthKernel Acquisition and Equities Trading Launch | Alpaca has finalized the purchase of WealthKernel, a specialized European fintech provider. The acquired entity will now run as Alpaca Europe, granting the company a fully compliant operational base across the United Kingdom and the broader... |
| 21.04.2026 | Alpaca Expands into Europe with WealthKernel Acquisition and Launch of European Equities Trading | Alpaca, a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs, today announced the completion of its acquisition of European fintech WealthKernel, marking its expansion into Europe. The company also announced the initial rollout of its API-first... |
| 17.04.2026 | Alpaca, Wallace Finance Partner to Launch Direct Indexing and ETFs Platform for Retail Investors | Wallace Finance, an AI-powered fintech platform, has joined forces with Alpaca to roll out a trading platform designed specifically for everyday investors. The new service brings advanced direct indexing and fully customizable ETF tools to ... |
| 16.04.2026 | Anchored Launches US Tokenized Stocks to Expand Global Investor Access | Anchored, the global digital operating system for real-world assets, today announced the launch of its first product, tokenized US stocks on Monad’s high-performance Layer 1 network, starting with the top 10 Nasdaq-listed equities via its M... |
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| 03.03.2026 | Fintech Musaffa Introduces Shariah-Compliant Investment Platform for US Investors | Musaffa, a fintech company specializing in Shariah-compliant research and Islamic financial education, has introduced its Global Halal Investment Platform targeted at the US markets. This new initiative opens doors for more than 600,000 Mus... |
| 26.02.2026 | Musaffa Expands Faith-Aligned Investing With Their Global Halal Investment Platform for US Markets | Musaffa, a leading fintech platform dedicated to Shariah-compliant investment research and Islamic Finance Education, recently announced the launch of its Global Halal Investment Platform. This new platform provides 600,000+ Muslim investor... |
| 16.01.2026 | Alpaca Raises $150 Million at a $1.15B Valuation to Build the Global Standard for Brokerage Infrastructure | Alpaca, a global leader in brokerage infrastructure whose APIs empower partners like Kraken, SBI Securities, and Dime!, today announced it has raised a $150 million Series D led by Drive Capital that values the company at $1.15 billion. Dri... |
| 15.01.2026 | Global Fintech Alpaca Secures $150M Funding, Valuation Hits $1.15 Billion | Alpaca, a leading brokerage infrastructure provider, secured $150 million in Series D funding. This investment elevates its valuation to $1.15 billion. The capital will fuel global expansion and enhance its API-driven platform. Alpaca conne... |
| 15.01.2026 | Fintech startup Alpaca becomes first Japan-founded unicorn in US | - |
| 15.01.2026 | Alpaca Announces $150M Funding Round, Achieving $1.15 Billion Valuation | Alpaca, a provider of brokerage infrastructure, has announced a successful Series D funding round, raising $150 million alongside a $40 million credit facility. This latest investment propels the company’s valuation to $1.15 billion, markin... |
| 14.01.2026 | Alpaca raises $150M to grow its brokerage account management platform
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| 14.01.2026 | Alpaca: $150 Million At $1.15 Billion Valuation Raised To Build The Global Standard For Brokerage Infrastructure | Alpaca, a brokerage infrastructure provider whose APIs are used by partners including Kraken, SBI Securities, and Dime!, has raised a $150 million Series D at a $1.15 billion valuation. The round was led by Drive Capital, and Drive Capital ... |
| 14.01.2026 | Flat invests 48 MSEK in the crypto and trading platform Alpaca | Alpaca was founded in 2015 and is run by founders Yoshi Yokokawa (CEO) and Hitoshi Harada (CPO). The company's offerings are leading in areas such as crypto, stocks, ETFs, options, and interest-bearing assets, with offerings such as tokeniz... |
| 14.01.2026 | Alpaca Raises $150M Series D, Valuation Hits $1.15B | Alpaca, a financial tech company out of the U.S., just locked in $150 million in Series D funding, increasing its valuation to $1.15 billion.
That’s a big milestone and shows investors are bullish about Alpaca’s brokerage API business and i... |
| 14.01.2026 | Alpaca Raises $150M in Series D Funding | Alpaca, a San Mateo, CA-based company which specializes in brokerage infrastructure APIs, raised $150M in Series D funding, at $1.15 Billion valuation.
The round was led by Drive Capital with participation from Citadel Securities, Opera Tec... |
| 16.10.2025 | Alpaca Announces Nasdaq Exchange Membership, Enabling Digital Brokerage Infrastructure | Alpaca, a self-clearing broker-dealer that offers stocks, ETFs, options, and fixed income, announced its acceptance as a Nasdaq Exchange Member. This update helps to further strengthen Alpaca’s operations in the US market and reflects its o... |
| 25.08.2025 | Fintech Alpaca Launches New Tools to Enhance UX for Algorithmic Traders | Alpaca, an API-first platform for stock, options, and crypto trading, has introduced a set of tools designed to elevate the trading experience for sophisticated algorithmic traders.
Recently, Alpaca announced the launch of its Direct Market... |
| 13.08.2025 | Alpaca Secures OCC, FICC Memberships to Enable Multi-Asset Self-Clearing for Partners | Alpaca, a self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure, announced that it has been approved as a clearing member by The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world’s equity derivatives clearing organization, and the Fixed Inco... |
| 16.05.2025 | Alpaca Launches Securities Lending for Broker API | Listen to this article
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Alpaca, an API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform, announced the launch of its Fully Paid Securities Lending (FPSL) program for its Broker API, marking a significant milestone in its ... |
| 23.04.2025 | Alpaca Raises $52M in Series C Funding | Alpaca, a NYC-based self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure API, raised $52M in Series C funding.
Backers included Derayah Financial, 850 Management, National Investments Company (NIC), Unbound, and Portage Ventures.
The co... |
| 29.12.2024 | Alpaca Shares Key 2024 Milestones, Becomes Self-Clearing Broker-Dealer and Launches Options Trading | Listen to this article
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Alpaca says it had a landmark year in 2024 as they became a fully self-clearing broker-dealer and launched new features like options trading.
Working with financial institutions, Alpaca said... |
| 12.11.2024 | Fintech Platform Alpaca Announces Support of FIX Messaging as Option for Order Placement, Lifecycle Management | Listen to this article
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Alpaca has announced the support of FIX messaging as an option for order placement and lifecycle management.
Alpaca has claimed that they found success in integrating FinTech companies with ... |
| 15.10.2024 | Fintech Platform Sarwa Launches Options Trading in the Middle East | Listen to this article
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Sarwa reportedly offers options trading to their customers, becoming one of the “first” fintech platforms in the Middle East to do so.
Sarwa and Alpaca’s partnership has grown since 2021, an... |
| 25.08.2024 | Alpaca’s Local Currency Trading API Updated for Nominal and Fractional Order Types | Listen to this article
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Alpaca’s local currency trading API now supports limit, stop, and stop limit for both nominal and fractional order types.
Additionally, Local Currency Trading now reportedly “offers extended... |
| 04.08.2024 | Alpaca Extends Partnership with Citadel Securities to Support Japanese Investor Demand for US Stocks | Listen to this article
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Alpaca, an API-focused brokerage that operates a modern infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, and crypto trading and serves hundreds of financial services businesses globally, and Citade... |
| 25.07.2024 | Alpaca expands partnership with Citadel Securities | - |
| 25.07.2024 | Alpaca expands partnership with Citadel Securities | Alpaca expands partnership with Citadel Securities
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*Meeting Japanese investor demand for US stocks and options trading* * [July 25, 2024 San Ma... |
| 16.07.2024 | Is Your Trading Platform Flaunting These Green Flags, or Should You Keep Searching For Your Fit? | Online investing and trading have skyrocketed over the last two decades with the emergence of zero-commission trading platforms, readily available access to numerous stocks, different brokerage service types and fees, portfolio management s... |
| 09.07.2024 | Alpaca Launches Advanced-Algorithmic Trading with White-Glove Support | Alpaca is pleased to announce the launch of Alpaca Elite, which is described as a solution designed specifically for sophisticated traders like you.
Alpaca Elite reportedly provides “a cost-effective, advanced algo trading experience with w... |
| 14.06.2024 | MachineTrader™ Launches Software for Designing Technical Indicators | NEW YORK, June 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- MachineTrader™ has released new software that calculates popular trading signals frequently used by day traders to determine optimal times to buy or sell an investment asset. The initial batch of soft... |
| 21.02.2024 | Financial Inclusion: Elphinstone to Transform Pakistani Investing with Seamless USD Accessibility | In the “bustling” landscape of Pakistan, Elphinstone claims that it stands as a beacon of financial empowerment, offering “a gateway for the country’s burgeoning middle class to unlock their financial potential.”
Co-founded by Farooq Tirmiz... |
| 15.01.2024 | AlpacaJapan AlpacaJapan starts providing “US Stock Coupon” service site for US stock users to SBI Securiti es | AlpacaJapan
AlpacaJapan starts providing “US Stock Coupon”, a service site for US stock users, to SBI Securities
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| 15.01.2024 | AlpacaJapan AlpacaJapan starts providing “US Stock Coupon” service site for US stock users to SBI Securiti es | - |
| 18.12.2023 | Mexico’s RUUT and Alpaca Are Supporting Fintech Solutions for New Investors | Launched with the intention to provide accessible, fair, and simple tools for wealth generation, RUUT is addressing Mexico’s unique challenges faced by new investors.
Currently situated in Mexico City and supported by Alpaca’s Broker API, R... |
| 14.10.2023 | Alpaca Receives $15M Investment From SBI Group | Alpaca, a San Mateo, CA-based provider of a brokerage platform for stock and crypto trading, received an investment of $15M from SBI Group.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its expansion of businesses and extend its reach ... |
| 25.07.2023 | Pebble Finance, Alpaca to Provide App to Help Investors Take Control of Investments | Pebble Finance, a registered investment advisor, introduces an innovative app designed for digital natives that helps address the investing challenges faced by individuals who are often overlooked due to their limited financial resources.
W... |
| 01.05.2023 | Investment Infrastructure: Alpaca Announces Upgrade with 24/7 sub-250ms Latency Transaction Processing | At Alpaca, their vision is to build a global de facto standard infrastructure for investing, and for that, they claim it is critical that they continue to provide technology infrastructure to support this vision.
They prioritize their API p... |
| 14.03.2023 | Kuwait: Securities House Launches Zad App, a Shariah-Compliant Investment Platform with Alpaca | Zad is reportedly the “first-of-its-kind digital investment platform launched in Kuwait by Securities House, “offering end-users access to trade over 4,000 stocks and ETFs in full compliance with Islamic Shariah principles.”
As noted in a b... |
| 12.01.2023 | Weltio Introduces Wealth Management Platform for Latin Americans with Alpaca Broker API | Weltio has launched a wealth management platform for Latin Americans with Alpaca Broker API.
Weltio is a technology wealth management platform that “offers Latin American investors the opportunity to invest in U.S. stocks, ETFs, and cryptoc... |
| 19.07.2022 | Alpaca Acquires Japanese Licensed Broker-Dealer AlpacaJapan | Alpaca, a San Mateo, Calif.-based crypto and stock investing platform for businesses from startups to Fortune 500s, closed the acquisition of a Japanese licensed broker-dealer, AlpacaJapan Co.,Ltd.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
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| 03.03.2022 | Shares raises $40 million for its social investment app | Shares has closed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. The company has been working on a mobile app that lets you easily buy and sell shares, but with a social twist. You can follow your friends’ moves and talk with o... |
| 01.03.2022 | As API-first startups multiply, GGV builds an index | When GGV Capital reached out and said that it had built an index of API-first companies, I was curious. Venture-built indexes of startups and other firms have proved useful tools in recent years, led by Bessemer’s cloud index, which is now ... |
| 30.08.2021 | Alpaca raises $50M to rapidly scale its API-delivered equities trading business | Alpaca said this morning that it has closed a massive $50 million Series B round of capital. TechCrunch previously covered the company’s late-2019 $6 million seed round and its late-2020 $10 million Series A.
Alpaca offers equities trading ... |
| 22.05.2021 | Watching startups eat markets is good fun | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign ... |
| 15.10.2020 | Alpaca raises $10M Series A for its API-powered equities trading service | This morning Alpaca, a startup that helps other companies add commission-free equities trading to their own products, announced a $10 million Series A. The new capital event was led by Portag3, and included prior investors Social Leverage, ... |
| 08.10.2020 | Investors, founders report hot market for API startups | Startups that deliver their service via an API are having a moment. Or perhaps a year.
Speaking with founders and investors this year, it has become clear that the API model of delivering a product is more than an occasional hit-maker for c... |
| 10.09.2020 | What’s driving API-powered startups forward in 2020? | Startups that deliver products via an API are seeing momentum in 2020, as their method of serving customers becomes increasingly mainstream. And investors are taking note.
It’s not hard to find a startup with an API-based delivery model tha... |
| 08.11.2019 | Alpaca nabs $6M for stocks API so anyone can build a Robinhood | Stock trading app Robinhood is valued at $7.6 billion, but it only operates in the U.S. Freshly funded fintech startup Alpaca does the dirty work so developers worldwide can launch their own competitors to that investing unicorn. Like the S... |
| 15.03.2019 | Meet 23 Companies from the YC W19 Batch Part 5 | Meet 23 companies that recently announced they’re part of the YC Winter 2019 batch. To see more YC W19 companies read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
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| 24.10.2018 | Fintech startup Alpaca unveils world’s first commission free API stock broker for automated investing and trading; closed a $3 million Pre-Series A funding | Just as technology transformed institutional trading on Wall Street, now retail investing is about to be disrupted and transformed by algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) that automate trading into process that can easily execute tho... |
| 24.10.2018 | Fintech Startup Alpaca Raises $3M in Pre-Series A | Alpaca, a San Mateo, CA-based API stock brokerage for developers and bots, raised $3m in Pre-Series A funding.
Investors include:
– Global Brain, a venture capital firm
– Chihiro Asano, a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, also a co-found... |
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