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Avi Lele and the gift that needed a brokerage
A Christmas present defeated a patent lawyer. Avi Lele spent the next chapter of his career making it easier to give someone a small piece of a company.
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?
Phuoc Tran Keeps Building for Vietnam's Next Investor
After logistics and a 500,000-agent sales network, Phuoc Tran turned to a harder delivery problem: making markets legible to Vietnam's new investors. Anfin's evolution from fractional stocks to commodity derivatives reveals an operator who treats access as a product discipline, not a slogan.
Scott Lynn
Scott Lynn is the founder and CEO of Masterworks, the New York fintech that files paintings by Basquiat, Banksy, Picasso and Warhol with the SEC and sells shares of them to retail investors. A serial internet entrepreneur who started his first company at 15 in Kansas City, he was already a top-100 U.S. art collector before he decided the art market itself needed a public offering.
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.
Dusko Kelez
Dusko Kelez is the Peruvian founder and CEO of Hapi App (YC W21), a San Francisco-based fintech that lets anyone in Latin America invest in U.S. stocks and crypto with no broker commissions and no minimums. After leading operations at Grin Scooters across seven countries and noticing that Latin Americans had no easy way to access global markets, he co-founded Hapi in 2020 with engineers Piero Sifuentes and Billy Caballero. Today the platform serves over 500,000 users in 20 countries, has raised $4.3M from Y Combinator and leading investors, and is celebrating milestones on the NASDAQ tower in Times Square.