🎉 Realize raises $1.9 million to help developers build investing fintechs
Realize allows users to link brokerage accounts, view real-time account data, and place trades from any app.
Announcing the raise
We’ve raised more than $1.9 million to continue growing Realize, a developer API that makes it easy for users to link brokerage accounts, view real-time account data, and place trades from any app or website.
Our backers include a number of our customers as well as some of the world’s strongest venture capital firms, including Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Soma Capital, Olive Tree Capital, True Capital Management, and more.
Our mission is to enable developers to build products that help the everyday investor get ahead - we’ll use this capital to continue doing so.
Introducing Realize
Developers use Realize to let people connect investment accounts to their products.
The API provides high-quality, high-frequency account data and the ability to place trades from more than 90 million supported accounts at the most popular brokerages in the United States, such as Robinhood.
Dozens of companies are using the Realize API to create products that help investors do things like:
minimize capital gains taxes
copy-trade
analyze portfolios
ensure that their positions align with their ESG goals
manage their RSUs
share investment activity with friends or family
take advantage of corporate stockholder perks
get a holistic view of their assets
and much more ðŸ›
How we got here
Realize was born out of necessity.
Our team was building an app that relied on brokerage account data, but ran into major roadblocks when trying to use existing APIs like Plaid. These APIs provide low-quality brokerage account data, only pull data every 12 hours, and often disconnect accounts.
We were unable to build our app with those APIs, so decided to build our own - one that provides high-quality account data in real-time, keeps accounts connected, and provides full trading functionality.
After realizing (😉) that other fintechs need this API to launch their products, we decided to offer our API publicly.
Where we’re going
The future is bright for retail investors - we’ve spoken with hundreds of developers who are actively building products to serve the needs of the modern investor.
However, to get these innovative products to market, developers need top-tier tools.
That’s where Realize comes in.
Realize sits as a seamless layer between fintechs and people’s investment accounts.
Developers can now focus on shipping their products instead of burning months or even years of engineering resources trying to build the infrastructure layer. We believe this will lead to an explosion of tools created for retail investors.
Our mission is to enable developers to build products that help the everyday investor get ahead - we’re excited to continue growing Realize in order to do that.
Interested in learning more? Check out our website, documentation, or jobs board!