Commonstock is a social-investing platform for stocks and cryptocurrencies that was acquired by Yahoo in August 2023, with its team joining Yahoo Finance. Commonstock's Twitter Score is 18 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #54,038 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Commonstock was founded by David McDonough as a web and mobile application connecting users' brokerage accounts and cryptocurrency exchanges through API integrations, enabling them to trade and monitor assets across multiple platforms. The platform distinguished itself by anchoring its social layer to verified portfolio performance, surfacing insights from investors whose holdings were linked to real brokerage accounts. Commonstock launched in July 2018 and grew to more than $10 billion in connected assets by the time of its acquisition.
Commonstock raised a $25 million Series A led by Coatue, announced in October 2021. Additional backers included QED Investors, Floodgate, Upside Ventures, Resolute Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Social Capital, and Studio VC. Commonstock has published 8,903 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 45 accounts a total of 117 times.
Who follows Commonstock on X?
The accounts that follow Commonstock include 90 founders, 28 angel investors, 13 influencers and 8 VCs, among them Li Jin, Jill Gunter, Matthew Graham, Vinny Lingham, scoopy.sockpupp.eth and Tarek Mansour.