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Alpaca

Y Combinator Winter 2019 · Banking & neobanks · North America

What it sells

API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform

Business model breakdown

Economics: what it saves and how it charges

UnverifiedBrokerage revenue from trading/market data/cash products and broker-API partners.

Distribution: how it reaches customers

Developer self-serve signup with free paper trading, plus partner/enterprise Broker API sales.

Funding history and coverage

Round dateStageAmountInvestorsSource
—Y Combinator Winter 2019—Y Combinatorycombinator.com

Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.

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