Alpaca — Valuation, Funding & Investors

Alpaca is a fintech company that builds API infrastructure for stock, options, fixed income and crypto trading, letting developers and businesses embed investing into their own products. Its Broker API and Trading API serve programmatic traders, retail investors, hedge funds and prop firms, and the company describes itself as a leading provider of brokerage infrastructure APIs used by hundreds of financial institutions across more than 40 countries.

Alpaca is a technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley and was founded in 2015 by Yoshi Yokokawa and Hitoshi Harada. It reports a developer community of over 61,000 monthly active developers building on its platform.

Listed funds carry late-stage private names. A fund's latest schedule of investments shows whether it holds Alpaca.

Often trade at a premium or discount to NAV.

Platforms match existing holders with buyers. Alpaca availability at any moment is set by the holders.

High minimums, transfer approval, company right-of-first-refusal.

Valuations, rounds and IPO status for every company in the directory — Alpaca included.

The last valuation is $1.1B (post-money, Jul 2026).

Lead investors for each round are in the funding timeline.

The closest fintech peers are on the competitors page.

The routes section explains what is realistically available for a company at this stage.

No. Alpaca is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.