Slash vs Alpaca
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API-first corporate card and global payments platform for high-spending businesses; $60.1M raised with $41M Series B, $3B annualized volume in 2025 competing with Brex and Ramp for programmable spend management.
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Slash is a Los Altos-based fintech company providing comprehensive financial services and corporate cards for high-spending businesses — offering global payments, programmable corporate cards, real-time payment rails, spend management APIs, reconciliation, and detailed reporting that financial operations teams at high-growth companies and high-volume businesses need to manage complex payment workflows. A Y Combinator W21 graduate, Slash raised $60.1 million total including a $41 million Series B in May 2025 led by Goodwater Capital with New Enterprise Associates and Menlo Ventures participation, surpassing $3 billion in annualized volume in 2025 (up from $1 billion in 2024).
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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