Yoshi Yokokawa co-founded Alpaca and is chief executive. Y Combinator’s company profile lists him as founder and CEO. Before Alpaca he was a VP in securitized products at Lehman Brothers and Nomura, then a full-time day trader, then led deep-learning and enterprise startups.
Markets and startups
The Y Combinator profile states he led tech startups focused on deep learning and enterprise businesses after leaving the sell side, and before that worked in securitized products at Lehman and Nomura.
Alpaca
Alpaca is an API-first brokerage for stock and crypto that Y Combinator backed in its Winter 2019 batch. Yokokawa founded it with Hitoshi Harada.
YC
Alpaca entered Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch. The company profile describes Alpaca as an API infrastructure and licensed financial services firm for stock and crypto investing.