Howard Lindzon is a fintech founder who co-founded Stocktwits, the financial social network credited with introducing the cashtag convention for grouping market discussions by ticker symbol, and currently serves as its CEO. Howard Lindzon's Twitter Score is 239 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,684 (top 0.5%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Howard Lindzon co-founded Social Leverage, a seed-stage venture capital firm, where he serves as general partner and managing partner. Social Leverage focuses on seed-stage investments, with its Fund V closing at $85 million. Howard Lindzon also founded Wallstrip, a financial video blog that was acquired by CBS. Beyond those ventures, he is affiliated with Times Bridge.
Howard Lindzon returned as CEO of Stocktwits in 2024, following the company's $30 million raise in November 2021. Stocktwits launched crypto trading in February 2022, and in 2024 Public acquired Stocktwits' TradeApp brokerage accounts, while Stocktwits continued operating its core social feeds and community discussions. Among his early seed investments, Howard Lindzon has backed notable fintech and consumer companies including Robinhood, eToro, Alpaca, Beehiiv, and Manscaped.
Howard Lindzon has published 88,325 posts on the platform and has 278,755 followers as of August 2026. Howard Lindzon has been mentioned by 528 accounts, with 3,205 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Howard Lindzon include 920 founders, 273 angel investors, 250 influencers and 61 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Nikita Bier, Matt Huang and Mike Dudas.