Social Leverage Named a Top VC by Times

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IV. Alpaca to Launch Prediction Markets Infrastructure

Alpaca.Markets(Fund III) registers as a FCM with the CFTC and NFA for prediction markets infrastructure launch.

Alpaca Registers as Futures Commission Merchant with the CFTC and NFA to Advance Launch of Prediction Markets

Alpaca Derivatives LLC is now a CFTC-registered Futures Commission Merchant and NFA member, expanding our regulated brokerage to support prediction markets.

Alpaca Blog | Developer-First API for Stocks, Options, and Crypto

III. The Stock Made Them Rich- Now Comes the Hard Part

SyntheticFI(Fund V) walks through frameworks for managing liquidity, concentration risk and timing taxes.

The stock made them rich. Now comes the hard part.

A practical framework for managing liquidity, concentration risk and tax timing.

SyntheticFi Newsletter • SyntheticFi Admin

Join SyntheticFi on their next webinar - The Single-Stock Unwind: A Tax-Aware Path from Concentration to Liquidity on August 26th.

II.Times Names Social Leverage a Top Venture Capital Firm

Social Leverage was chosen as one of the top venture capital firms of 2026 in the recent Times release.

America's Top Venture Capital Firms of 2026

Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.

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I. Build Your Own AI-Powered Hedge Fund

Alpaca.Markets(Fund III) is hosting their webinar on August 27th. Sign up now!

We’re hosting a virtual webinar called “Build Your Own AI-Powered Hedge Fund with Alpaca” on Thursday, August 27. At New York Tech Week, we ran a similar workshop, and the engagement and response from the community was so positive that we're doing it again, but virtually this time. During the session, we’ll walk you through how to build an AI-powered trading agent connected to real market data and paper trading workflows in less than 60 minutes. You'll see how AI agents can use Alpaca's infrastructure to: 🔎 Analyze live market trends and data 💡 Generate actionable trade ideas 💬 Query market data using natural language 📄 Execute automated paper trading workflows We’ll start with a live demo, move to a hands-on session where you build and deploy your own agent, and end with a live Q&A with the Alpaca team. 📅 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026 🕙 Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM PDT (1:00 – 2:00 PM ET) 📍 Location: Virtual Register in the comments below.

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III. How Knix Scales Hiring with AI Without Losing the Human

II. Building Brokerage 2.0 with Mo from Frec

Building Brokerage 2.0: Direct Indexing and Tax Alpha with Mo Al Adham

Frec founder Mo Al Adham on tax alpha, direct indexing, and why he almost built a completely different company before interest rates forced a pivot.

Founders in Arms

I. Matt Ober Joins Investing in Impact

Social Leverage’s Matt Ober on Venture Capital, AI, Wealth Creation, and the Flywheel of Entrepreneurship

Investing in Impact | Impact Investing · Episode

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Affiliate Disclosure: Social Leverage Group, LLC ("SLG"), Social Leverage Capital Fund I, LP ("SLC"), Social Leverage Capital Fund II, LP ("SLCII"), Social Leverage Capital Fund III, LP ("SLCIII") and Social Leverage Capital Fund IV, LP ("SLCIV") are all distinct entities from Social Leverage, LLC ("SL"). Social Leverage is not a registered investment advisor. SLC, SLCII, SLCIII, SLCIV, SLG and SL have used the logo and branding of Social Leverage with the permission of Social Leverage Group, LLC.

Social Leverage Named a Top VC by Times

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