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Tokenized stocks' main custodian Alpaca raises $135m equity
Alpaca, an API-first broker, raised $135 million in equity funding led by Peak XV and secured an additional $300 million in debt financing from Kraken's Payward and BMO. The company provides infrastructure for fintechs and custody for $1.5 billion in tokenized stocks, with recent expansions including acquisitions of WealthKernel and Zincmoney.
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Summary
Alpaca, an API-first broker, raised $135 million in equity funding led by Peak XV and secured an additional $300 million in debt financing from Kraken's Payward and BMO. The company provides infrastructure for fintechs and custody for $1.5 billion in tokenized stocks, with recent expansions including acquisitions of WealthKernel and Zincmoney.
Tags
alpaca · venture-funding · fintech · api-broker · tokenized-stocks · debt-financing · cryptocurrency
Key entities
Alpaca (organization, 1) · Peak XV (organization, 0.95) · Elefund (organization, 0.9) · Opera Tech Ventures (organization, 0.9) · BNP Paribas Group (organization, 0.95) · Unbound (organization, 0.85) · Backed (organization, 0.9) · Ondo Global Markets (organization, 0.9) · Robinhood (organization, 0.95) · Binance (organization, 0.95) · WealthKernel (organization, 0.9) · Zincmoney (organization, 0.9) · Kraken (organization, 0.95) · Payward (organization, 0.9) · BMO (organization, 0.95) · tokenized-stocks (concept, 0.95) · API-broker (concept, 0.95) · custody-services (concept, 0.9) · Series D funding (event, 0.9)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 21 Jul 2026