Yoshi Yokokawa — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-Founder and CEO of Alpaca, a global brokerage infrastructure provider.
Co-founded Alpaca (YC W19), launched in 2018.
Co-founded and sold multiple machine learning businesses.
Leads Alpaca in providing end-to-end brokerage features, including KYC, trade execution, clearing, custody, and reporting.
Developed Alpaca's developer-friendly API for programmatic trading across multiple asset classes.
Applied big data processing and deep learning technologies to solve data-intensive problems for financial institutions.

Biography

Yoshi Yokokawa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Alpaca, a global brokerage infrastructure provider. Launched in 2018, Alpaca enables hundreds of banks, brokerage firms, and fintech companies to build investing applications. The platform's developer-friendly API allows programmatic traders to access and automate trading across multiple asset classes from a consolidated account.