Alpaca is a developer-first brokerage infrastructure and API provider co-founded by Yoshi Yokokawa and Hitoshi Harada that offers stock, options, and crypto trading capabilities to builders and fintechs. Alpaca's Twitter Score is 40 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #23,198 (top 5%) among 482,999 tracked accounts.
Alpaca, operating as AlpacaDB, Inc., builds the underlying rails that allow developers to embed trading directly into applications via API. Its securities business runs through Alpaca Securities LLC, while cryptocurrency services are handled by Alpaca Crypto LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary registered with FinCEN as a money services business. Alpaca is a graduate of Y Combinator and has drawn backing from investors including Drive Capital, Tribe Capital, SBI Group, Peak XV, and Elefund.
Alpaca closed a $150 million Series D in January 2026 at a valuation of $1.15 billion. In October 2025, the company launched the Instant Tokenization Network, a system enabling in-kind minting and redemption between brokerage-held stocks and their tokenized counterparts on Solana. The account has published 3,043 posts and has been mentioned by 103 accounts a total of 209 times, with 13,173 followers as of August 2026 on the platform.
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Alpaca attracts a technically and financially oriented audience. The accounts that follow Alpaca include 179 founders, 48 angel investors, 56 influencers and 4 VCs, among them Andrew Kang, H.E. Justin Sun, John Wang, Vlad Tenev, Andy and Binji.