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Alpaca (Fund III), founded by Yoshi Yokokawa in Japan, is an API provider and self-clearing broker-dealer that enables developers to build and scale trading products for assets like stocks, crypto, and options. With over 250 companies and 25,000 developers using its platform in 40 markets, Alpaca has become a leading trading infrastructure company—its Broker API was named one of Postman’s Top 25 APIs in 2024, alongside Notion, Stripe, and Plaid.
Archive Intel (Fund IV), an AI-powered compliance platform for financial services firms, raised a $6.3M Series A led by Gray Line Partners with participation from Social Leverage and Garuda Ventures, bringing total funding to $8.8M. The company’s platform unifies communications archiving and marketing compliance, serving 500+ firms and 7,000 users, and plans to use the new capital to expand AI engineering and launch new compliance tools like trade monitoring and attestations.
OpenAI built an AI-powered inbound sales assistant using its own technology to handle the surge in demand for ChatGPT Enterprise and Business. Trained with real sales rep feedback, the assistant now delivers personalized, accurate responses in multiple languages within minutes, boosting lead conversion and unlocking millions in new annual recurring revenue while maintaining a human-quality customer experience at scale.
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