About Alpaca

History & Founders

Alpaca is a technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley that builds a simple and modern API for stock trading. Our Brokerage services are provided by Alpaca Securities LLC, a member of FINRA/SIPC. We are a team of diverse background individuals with deep financial and technology expertise, backed by some of the top investors in the industry globally. We are proud to be supported by the love of enthusiastic community members on various platforms.

Alpaca’s globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage business specialists, who collectively have decades of financial services and technology industry experience at organizations such as FINRA, Apple, Wealthfront, Robinhood, EMC, Cloudera, JP Morgan, and Lehman Brothers. Alpaca is co-founded and led by Yoshi Yokokawa (CEO) and Hitoshi Harada (CPO).

Our investors include a group of well-capitalized investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Elderidge, and Y Combinator as well as highly experienced industry angel investors such as Joshua S. Levine (former CTO/COO of ETRADE), Nate Rodland (former COO of Robinhood & GP of Elefund), Patrick O’Shaughnessy (“Invest Like the Best” podcast host & Partner of Positive Sum), Jacqueline Reses (former Executive Chairman of Square Financial Services), Asiff Hirjii (former President/COO of Coinbase), Aaron Levie (CEO of Box), and founders of leading Fintech companies including Plaid and Wealthsimple.

Vision

Allow 8+ billion people on the planet to access financial markets.

We are committed to providing a secure, reliable and compliant platform for anyone who wants to build their own trading strategies, asset management automation, trading and robo-advisor apps, new brokerage services and investment products. We value having a variety of developers who create exciting and innovative projects with our API.

What Services Does Alpaca Provide?

Alpaca India is a fully licensed broker-dealer and Global Access Provider (GAP), regulated by the IFSCA in GIFT City. In partnership with our sister organization, Alpaca Securities LLC, we provide comprehensive trading and clearing services for US equities. We support all assets listed on US public exchanges (NMS stocks), including: Stocks & ETFs, IPOs and Fixed Income Assets.

Our Technology Suite

We empower our partners with a robust set of tools designed for seamless integration and development:

• Broker API: Embed brokerage solution within your digital platform (app/website)
• API Sandbox: A dedicated environment to test and refine your integrations safely.
• Web Dashboards: Streamlined interfaces for account and trade management.
• Market Data: Reliable, real-time data feeds to power your platform.
• Community Support: Access to our developer resources and community forums.