Malga vs Alpaca
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São Paulo payment orchestration connecting 25+ Brazilian providers through single API; YC $10.3M with R$7B processed after acquiring Drip for Pix Parcelado competing for Brazilian digital payment infrastructure.
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Malga is a São Paulo-based payment orchestration platform — backed by Y Combinator with $10.3 million raised including a $5.55 million Series A led by CV iDEXO and Costanoa in February 2025 — enabling Brazilian digital businesses to access 25+ payment providers (Adyen, Stripe, Stone, Cielo, PagSeguro, Pix rails) through a single API integration, with transaction-level intelligent routing and automatic failover that switches providers without code changes. Founded in 2020 and having processed R$7 billion since inception, Malga serves e-commerce platforms, fintechs, and marketplaces and in December 2024 acquired Drip, a Pix Parcelado (installment payments via Pix) provider.
Alpaca is a self-clearing broker-dealer and global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, and fixed income; raised $52M Series C in April 2025 totaling $170M;
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Alpaca is a developer-first brokerage infrastructure company founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. It operates as a fully self-clearing broker-dealer with DTCC, Nasdaq, OCC, and FICC memberships — enabling it to provide end-to-end brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and cryptocurrency without requiring partners to manage their own clearing relationships. Alpaca's Broker API allows fintech companies, neobrokerages, robo-advisors, and wealth management platforms to embed multi-asset trading into their applications with a single integration.
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