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Groundfloor Finance made $10 a seat at the lender’s table.
A small ticket opened a private corner of real estate to everyday investors. Groundfloor’s next chapter shows why access is only half the investment.
Nada turns your house into spending money.
A home can make you wealthy on paper and leave you short of cash. Nada trades money today for a piece of its future value - a useful escape hatch with a price worth understanding.
Brandon Krieg wants your first investment to feel possible
Before Stash, Brandon Krieg built technology for professional traders. Then he took a question to the sidewalks of New York: why did so many people believe investing had to wait until they were rich?
Chipper Cash. Borders cost extra.
Sending money should feel like sending a message. Chipper Cash built that promise across Africa, then learned how much it costs to keep it.
Otis made a stock market out of things you love
A Banksy, a pair of Jordans, a comic book: Otis turned objects of desire into investments sold by the share. Public bought the company in 2022, taking its experiment in cultural ownership to a larger audience.
Jannick Malling Is Still Redrawing the Trading Screen
He began with a Flash website at 13 and entered online finance at 17. Two decades later, Public's product-minded co-CEO is still trying to make markets feel less like a private language.
The Token Was Never the Property
Jointer tried to turn commercial property into something you could buy by the dollar and leave by the click. The twist was realizing that a digital deed was not enough - liquidity had to be designed as the product.
The $1 doorway Norman Wanto built into Wall Street
A scholarship student became a software builder, then turned a three-person coding sprint into a cross-border investing platform. His quiet advantage was never finance theatre - it was systems thinking.
Gotrade
Gotrade is a Singapore-based, YC-backed fintech that lets people in 140+ countries buy fractional shares of US stocks and ETFs commission-free, starting from just $1. Often described as a 'Robinhood for Southeast Asia,' it uses nine-decimal-place fractional trading to make high-priced US equities accessible to first-time international investors on a mobile-first app.