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The company behind the buy button
Apex Fintech Solutions began with a clearing firm in trouble. It became the machinery that lets other companies make investing look simple.
Rohit Mulani and the price of getting in
A $30 trading fee helped set Rohit Mulani on the road to Gotrade. His next chapters, at TrustInvest and Alpaca, return to the same question: how do you make investing easier to enter?
Sharegain Put the $3 Trillion Lending Desk in a Box
The London fintech turned a clubby, manual corner of capital markets into software that brokers and banks can switch on for ordinary investors. The trick was not a shinier trading screen - it was rebuilding the plumbing, pricing it only when assets actually lend, and then teaching clients how to get customers to opt in.
Hitoshi Harada
Hitoshi Harada is the Co-Founder, CTO, and CPO of Alpaca Markets - the fintech unicorn building what he calls the 'Global Financial OS.' A Keio University-trained computer scientist who rewrote parts of PostgreSQL (Window Functions, PL/v8), Harada spent years building distributed databases at Greenplum before co-founding Alpaca in 2015 with Yoshi Yokokawa. The company, named after an alpaca they spotted on a Silicon Valley billionaire's estate, has grown to command 94% of the global tokenized US equities market, serve 300+ financial institutions across 40+ countries, and reach unicorn status at $1.15B valuation with a $150M Series D in January 2026.
Yoshi Yokokawa
Yoshi Yokokawa is the co-founder and CEO of Alpaca, the San Mateo-based API-first brokerage infrastructure company that powers over 300 global fintech partners across 45 countries. A former Lehman Brothers analyst and forex trader turned repeat entrepreneur, Yoshi built Alpaca from a YC W19 startup into a $1.15 billion unicorn after raising a $150 million Series D in January 2026. His vision: a 'Global Financial OS' that makes investing borderless, accessible, and developer-native.