MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (MUIP), the corporate venture capital arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), has recently invested in AlpacaDB, Inc. (Alpaca) through the MUFG Innovation Partners No. 3 Investment Partnership.
Corporate Profile
Name | AlpacaDB, Inc. |
|---|---|
Date of Establishment | 2015 |
Headquarters | California, USA |
CEO | Yoshi Yokokawa |
Alpaca is a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs, enabling financial institutions and fintech companies to embed brokerage capabilities into their own applications and platforms. With self-clearing capability and a broad suite of API services at its core, Alpaca offers unified access to multiple asset classes—stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed-income products—in pursuit of its mission to “open financial services to everyone on the planet.”
Traditionally, many financial institutions and fintechs faced high fixed costs and complex legacy integrations for clearing, custody, and tax processes when building brokerage capabilities, making it difficult to achieve both speed and scalability. Cross-border expansion added further challenges, requiring companies to be compliant with local regulations and tax frameworks, as well as meeting modern UX requirements such as 24/5 trading and fractional shares.
Alpaca’s API-driven Brokerage-as-a-Service addresses these issues by integrating account opening, funding, order execution, and custody into a single platform, enabling fast deployment at lower cost. Its self-clearing infrastructure delivers scalable, high-margin operations.
Alpaca is a foundational company enabling global standard investment access. MUIP will support MUFG and its corporate clients in delivering new value through the adoption of Alpaca’s compliant, robust, and trusted infrastructure,
About MUIP
MUIP was established in January 2019 as the corporate venture capital arm of Japan’s leading financial group, MUFG, to promote its open innovation strategy. MUIP currently runs 5 funds (about USD 650 million in total), making strategic investments in startups globally and driving business collaboration between the startups and MUFG group companies.
For more information, visit MUFG Innovation Partners.
About Alpaca
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, self-clearing broker-dealer and a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto. Alpaca delivers embeddable finance solutions for tokenization, fully paid securities lending, high-yield cash, 24/5 trading, Shariah-compliant investing and more. Today, Alpaca, having raised over $321 million from investors, powers over 9 million brokerage accounts across hundreds of fintechs and institutions in 40+ countries.
For more information, visit Alpaca
