At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 84 Stock Exchanges companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Stock Exchanges Companies & Startups (California, United States)
SigFig
SigFig is financial services firm that dedicates in making high-quality investment advice to investors of all wealth levels.
Founder(s): Mike Sha, Parker Conrad
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Accounting, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Management Consulting, News, Stock Exchanges
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Futureswap
Futureswap is a decentralized perpetuals exchange
Founder(s): Derek Alia
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Stock Exchanges
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CommonStock
CommonStock is a developer of a group chat platform that is designed to share investment knowledge and decisions.
Founder(s): David McDonough
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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Omega Point
Omega Point is a developer of a platform that provides better insights and data-driven decisions to every investment manager.
Founder(s): Eran Cedar, Omer Cedar, Yoram Cedar
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, FinTech, Risk Management, Software, Stock Exchanges
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FanTrade
FanTrade is a mobile app where users earn money by playing real-time daily contests based on fantasy crypto and stocks.
Founder(s): Devayani Latey, Soham Garud
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Gamification, Gaming, Stock Exchanges
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Instavest
Instavest allows you to replicate the world’s best investments.
Founder(s): Mohammad Mithani, Saleem S. Khatri, Zain Allarakhia
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Social Media, Stock Exchanges
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Eze
Eze is a B2B marketplace for electronics allowing buyers & sellers to trade in wholesale quantities with real-time market data.
Founder(s): David Iya, Josh Nzewi
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: B2B, Electronics, Marketplace, Stock Exchanges
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Vested Finance
Vested Finance is an online investment platform developing an avenue for Indian investors to invest in the U.S. stock market.
Founder(s): Darwin Arifin, Eric Huynh, Viram Shah, Yinghan Lin
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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Long-Term Stock Exchange
The Long-Term Stock Exchange designs an SEC-regulated national securities exchange that aligns great companies and long-term investors.
Founder(s): Eric Ries, Eric Ries, John Bautista
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Stock Exchanges
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Carta
Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Founder(s): Henry Ward, Manu Kumar
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Finance, FinTech, SaaS, Software, Stock Exchanges
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AlphaClone
AlphaClone enables users to access alpha-generating stock ideas and investment strategies.
Founder(s): Mebane Faber
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Internet, Simulation, Stock Exchanges
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Contora
Alternative data for retail traders
Founder(s): Vlad Ilnitskiy
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, FinTech, Stock Exchanges
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Tip’d Off
The Ultimate Social Trading Network
Founder(s): Akshay Oberai
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Mobile, Social Media, Stock Exchanges
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Taild Sports
Taild Sports is a provider of foreign Stock services.
Founder(s): Edward Mauze
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Stock Exchanges
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TalentWorks
TalentWorks is job interview matching platform
Founder(s): Ajit Banerjee, Kushal Chakrabarti
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: B2B, Commercial, Human Resources, Messaging, Software, Staffing Agency, Stock Exchanges
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StocksToTrade
StocksToTrade is a real-time stock screening, charting and trading platform that allows you to find the best stocks every day!
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Location: Brea, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Stock Exchanges
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Online Trading Academy
Online Trading Academy is an educational institution offering investing and trading classes for people from all walks of life.
Founder(s): Eyal Shahar
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Education, Finance, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Stock Exchanges
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SkyBulls
SkyBulls is a simulated multi-exchange stock market trading platform for people who want to educate and train themselves and test their
Founder(s): Uday Bansal
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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Zecco
Zecco Trading is an online stock brokerage and investing company that offers low cost stock trades and low cost options trades.
Founder(s): Dino van Es, Jeroen Veth
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Internet, Stock Exchanges
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FinancialContent
FinancialContent is a company that publishes financial data and news online.
Founder(s): Mark Dierolf
Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Stock Exchanges
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Nasdaq Private Market
NPM is advancing the secondary marketplace for private companies, employees & shareholders, banks & brokers, law firms and investors.
Founder(s): Barry Silbert, Eric Folkemer
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Stock Exchanges
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ChemConnect
ChemConnect, Inc. operates as an electronic exchange for trading midstream energy, feedstocks, chemicals, and related products.
Founder(s): Jay Hall, John Beasley
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Animal Feed, Chemical, Energy, Stock Exchanges
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Proptech Acquisition
PropTech Acquisition Corporation is a special purpose acquisition corporation, and much more, established to enter into a merger.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Real Estate, Stock Exchanges, Venture Capital
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Empire Kred
Empire.Kred is all about connecting Influencers with relevant content and rewarding them for it.
Founder(s): Duleepa Wijayawardhana, Michael Mannion, Niall Brown
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Communities, Social Media, Software, Stock Exchanges
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Positive Stocks
We Provide investor awareness to connect investors & public companies.Investor Relations & Financial Consultants Investor Influence Platform
Founder(s): Positive Phil
Location: San Marcos, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Finance, Impact Investing, Media and Entertainment, Public Relations, Publishing, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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MB Trading
MB Trading is a simple direct access to a flexible trading platform like Desktop Pro, innovative, high-value tools at low cost.
Founder(s):
Location: Lucerne Valley, California, United States
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Stock Exchanges
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Progress Investment Management
Progress Investment Management is a registered investment adviser that specializes in securities and exchange commission services.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advice, Financial Services, Stock Exchanges
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The Pit
The Pit is an Accounting company.
Founder(s): Marc Lore, Vinit Bharara
Location: Oxnard, California, United States
Industries: Accounting, E-Commerce, Retail, Sports, Stock Exchanges
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BarterTrust.com
BarterTrust USA’s largest Internet-enabled business barter exchange, enables trading for a growing network of more than 7,000 businesses.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: B2B, Banking, E-Commerce, Finance, Financial Services, Internet, Stock Exchanges
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Hollywood Stock Exchange
Hollywood Stock Exchange is the place to buy and trade movies, stars and more.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Stock Exchanges
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Social Stock
Virtual Stock Market of people n places
Founder(s): Subbu Rama
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Stock Exchanges
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Elite Tech Apps LLC
Leaders in Profitable Trading Signals for Stocks and FOREX.
Founder(s):
Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Data Services, Data Mining, Digital Entertainment, Financial Services, FinTech, Intelligent Systems, Predictive Analytics, Stock Exchanges
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SmartStops.net
Smartstops.net is a next-gen risk management service that helps stock market participants protect profits and minimize losses.
Founder(s):
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: FinTech, Internet, Personal Finance, Software, Stock Exchanges
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AlphaGenius
Technology and Investment Company
Founder(s): Jed Levin, Octavio Herrera, Randy Saaf
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Fashion, Finance, FinTech, Machine Learning, Software, Stock Exchanges
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Logic0x LLC
Venture Capital Firm and Financial Technology Company
Founder(s): No one Here
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Bitcoin, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, FinTech, Personal Finance, Software, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform, Virtual Currency
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Peribit Networks
Peribit Networks offers a range of WAN optimization solutions.
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Network Hardware, Software, Stock Exchanges
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Unicorn Bay
Professional finance tool for amateur investors.
Founder(s): Anton Baranchuk, Denis Alaev, Evgenii Elesin
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Stock Exchanges
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Fairview Capital Investment Management
Fairview Capital Investment Management offers fixed income, ETFs, emerging market equities, risk and wealth management solutions.
Founder(s):
Location: Greenbrae, California, United States
Industries: Advice, Financial Services, Risk Management, Stock Exchanges, Wealth Management
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Parkside Securities
Parkside Securities specializes in providing access to US stocks for global individuals through regulatory innovation and modern technology.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Mobile Apps, Stock Exchanges
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Stock Circles Inc.
Smart auto-trading, algorithmic trading, artificial intelligence trading – Stock Circles
Founder(s): Annouchka Yameogo, Jean F Boisvert
Location: Rolling Hills Estates, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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MicrostockGroup
MicrostockGroup is an independant forum for professional microstock photographers, illustrators and videographers.
Founder(s):
Location: Fair Oaks, California, United States
Industries: Blogging Platforms, Photography, Stock Exchanges
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Stockzio
Stocks Portfolio Management & Analytics
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Stock Exchanges
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Torrey PInes Securities
Financial Services
Founder(s):
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, Retirement, Stock Exchanges
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Born To Sell
Born To Sell offers covered calls at borntosell.com. These calls are an easy and income-oriented investment strategy.
Founder(s): Mike Scanlin
Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Stock Exchanges
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Smoohub
Smoohub is a platform for user generated and content sharing of stock market analysis.
Founder(s): Ema Chuku
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Internet, Stock Exchanges
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priceSeries
priceSeries is an algorithmic trading company that provides automated stock transaction buy, sell, and hold guidance for traders.
Founder(s): Rajesh Srivastava
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform, Transaction Processing
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Tiblio
Tiblio is a complete stock market trading system to help to find the best trading opportunities and make smart decisions.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Internet, Stock Exchanges
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MoGro.com
Online investing for everyday people!
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advice, Finance, Stock Exchanges
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Beyorch
Beyorch offers financial and stock exchange services.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Stock Exchanges
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Learn & Earn
Learn & Earn platform assists people in micro-investing.
Founder(s):
Location: Newport Beach, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Stock Exchanges
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Renegade Investor
Renegade Investor Alternative In.vestment Opportunities, Tips, and Resources.
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Location: Laguna Beach, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Security, Stock Exchanges
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Grow
Grow is a financial mobile app that offers investment portfolios, stock advisory, and financial services.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Mobile Apps, Stock Exchanges
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AlphaTradeZone
AlphaTradeZone is a trading platform that specializes in crypto market analysis, bitcoin, brokerage, stocks, and financial services.
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Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Financial Exchanges, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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Main Street Trading
Main Street Trading is a brokerage that provides tools and services on the trading of a range of commodities.
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Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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TriVest Folio
TriVest Folio is a personal investment tool helping to build a diversified investment portfolio of Indian mutual funds and etf’s.
Founder(s): Sandip Southekal, Siddharth Choksi
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Career Planning, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Stock Exchanges
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FreeFlow
FreeFlow provides consumer electronics and wireless brands to auction retail, returned, or obsolete stock profitably.
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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Stock Exchanges, Wireless
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Media Bakery
Creative Stock Photography & More. Search our large selection of premium and microstock royalty free and rights managed stock photography.
Founder(s): Chad Newell
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Image Recognition, Photography, Stock Exchanges, Video
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Lahore Stock Exchange
Lahore Stock Exchange offers financial and investment news for investors.
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Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, News, Publishing, Stock Exchanges
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Tidalwave Trader
Tidalwave Trader offers an education platform for learning the fundamentals of stock trading via personalized textbook and video lessons.
Founder(s): Brett Grendahl, Kevin Neel
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Education, Finance, Insurance, Stock Exchanges
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MeARKET
MeARKET allows its users to manage their portfolio online, share their positions and transactions, and discuss them with friends.
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Location: California City, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Finance, Social Media, Stock Exchanges
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Guide My Finances
Guide My Finances deals with financial plan, retirement, investment management, strategic inheritance and stock compensation sale strategy.
Founder(s): Jackie Mazur, Jackie Mazur
Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Retirement, Stock Exchanges
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Stock Loans
Stock loans is providing non recourse stock loans.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Lending, Personal Finance, Stock Exchanges
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Order Flow Analytics
Order Flow Analytics (OFA) provides day traders with an evolutionary view of the market and pioneer of the order flow analysis concept.
Founder(s):
Location: Tustin, California, United States
Industries: Predictive Analytics, Professional Services, Stock Exchanges
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Learning Markets
Free online education for investors.
Founder(s): Dan Olson
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Education, Finance, Publishing, Stock Exchanges
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BrightQube
BrightQube is an image marketplace with image viewing tools that are optimized for browsing large collections of photos.
Founder(s): Lee Corkran
Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Image Recognition, Internet, Photography, Search Engine, Stock Exchanges, Web Development
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Robinhood
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Founder(s): Baiju Bhatt, Vlad Tenev
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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PayTrading
PayTrading is an investment management company that focuses on trading, buying, and selling currencies, stocks, and commodities.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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WealthTrack
Wealthtrack is broker-agnostic mobile trading app
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Stock Exchanges, Training
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Streetread
Streetread revolutionizes the way you track the news and data that surround Wall Street each and every day by dramatically simplifying the
Founder(s): Mike Stefanello
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Finance, News, Search Engine, Software, Stock Exchanges
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Inbar Inc
Inbar, Inc. maintains BarterTrust.com, a worldwide business-to-business electronic barter trade network for companies and trade exchanges.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: B2B, E-Commerce, Stock Exchanges
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Technical Securities Analysts Association
Technical Securities Analysts Association focuses on the growth and education of technical analysis of commodities and stocks.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Non Profit, Stock Exchanges
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Interactive Buyside
Equity research for individual investors
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Stock Exchanges
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Stocks on Wall Street
Stocks on Wall Street is an online resource for users to compare stocks in real time.
Founder(s): James Hartje
Location: Novato, California, United States
Industries: Stock Exchanges
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West Coast Stock Transfer
West Coast Stock Transfer provides payment assistance, business development and consulting services for organizations.
Founder(s):
Location: Encinitas, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Financial Services, Stock Exchanges
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PassFail
Financial data on companies
Founder(s):
Location: Sausalito, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Finance, Stock Exchanges
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Halifax America
Halifax America is a brokerage firm that provides trading access and information on a wide range of financial markets and products.
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Location: Sherman Oaks, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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OppStreet
OppStreet is a stock ratings social network that allows members to assess companies according to preliminary, compiled rating forms.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Social Media, Stock Exchanges
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EngineeringRobo
EngineeringRobo develops a reliable and powerful trading platform for traders to gain a competitive edge in the financial markets.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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Wall St. Jesus
Wall St. Jesus is a stock market analysis firm.
Founder(s):
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Stock Exchanges
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COBALT BLACK CONSULTING
COBALT BLACK CONSULTING, INC. was registered on 19 Aug 2008 as Domestic Stock company type
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Stock Exchanges
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O’neil storage
O’neil storage is a provider of a wide variety of state-of-the-art storage facilities of units and sizes for business, personal and vehicle.
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Ana, California, United States
Industries: Self-Storage, Stock Exchanges, Warehousing
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Index Gurus
Personalized Investment Strategy
Founder(s):
Location: Walnut Creek, California, United States
Industries: Career Planning, Consulting, Finance, Financial Services, Stock Exchanges
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SHAREbid
SHAREbid is a trading platform that helps employees and investors to buy and sell private company shares.
Founder(s):
Location: Newport Beach, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
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Wealthfront
Wealthfront is a next-gen banking service that helps manage money for both short-term and long-term wealth.
Founder(s): Andy Rachleff, Dan Carroll
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Personal Finance, Stock Exchanges, Wealth Management
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