Application YC di Alpaca

Winter 2019Active

Alpaca ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2019 come azienda Fintech. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2019
Settore: FintechBanking and Exchange
Dimensione team: 150
Stato: Active
Lanciata: 2018

Founder

Yoshi YokokawaCo-founder & CEO
Hitoshi HaradaFounder/CTO

Cosa fa Alpaca

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.

Application YC di Alpaca, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Alpaca, batch Winter 2019. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Alpaca

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We provide a licensed brokerage platform focused on APIs that let developers and businesses integrate stock and crypto investing directly into their own apps. Our product handles the trading, compliance, and clearing behind the scenes so users can build investing features without building their own brokerage.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Mateo, CA, and have a distributed remote team. After YC, the company would remain based in San Mateo while continuing remote operations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Mateo places us close to major talent pools and financial tech hubs, which suits our needs. Remote work lets us access specialists globally, crucial for building complex brokerage infrastructure.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Alpaca?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Alpaca (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Alpaca si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.