Pluang Funding, Investors & Competitors

Acorns is an Irvine-headquartered micro-investing platform that rounds up everyday debit card purchases to invest spare change into diversified exchange-traded fund portfolios. Asset managers such as Vanguard and BlackRock supply the underlying low-cost index funds tracking S&P 500 and total stock market benchmarks. The app also features automated recurring investments, retirement accounts, and banking services with FDIC-insured checking. Launched in 2012, Acorns serves customers throughout the United States.

Moneybox is a London-based savings and investment app enabling automated deposits into ISAs, pensions, and Lifetime ISAs for first-time homebuyers. Founded in 2015, it serves 1.5 million UK users with round-up features, stocks and shares portfolios tracking FTSE indices, and pension consolidation from providers like Aviva. The app offers cash ISAs at 4.6% AER and robo-advisory with risk-rated funds from BlackRock. Moneybox holds FCA authorization and integrates with Starling Bank.

Tally is a financial automation platform founded in 2015 that manages credit card debt through automated payments. San Francisco-based, it negotiates lower interest rates with issuers like Chase and Citi while optimizing payoff strategies. The app monitors spending and builds savings accounts for users tackling over $10 billion in debt.

Albert is a U.S. fintech company, launched in 2016, that provides a mobile app combining automated savings, budgeting, investing, and access to human financial experts for personalized advice. Additional features include Instant, which offers paycheck advances, aimed at improving the financial wellness of middle-income Americans living paycheck to paycheck. The app has grown to millions of registered users, who have collectively saved hundreds of millions of dollars since its launch.

INDmoney is an Indian mobile application for investing in U.S. stocks, mutual funds, and digital savings accounts. Its Super Saver feature provides high-interest banking options, helping users manage portfolios and plan finances through a seamless app interface.

Charles Schwab is one of the largest retail-oriented financial-services companies in the US, with $11.9 trillion in client assets across its brokerage, banking, asset management, custody, financial advisory, and wealth-management businesses at the end of 2025. While best known for its retail brokerage offering, Schwab generates the lion’s share of its revenue and profits through its Charles Schwab Bank and asset management segments. The firm is a dominant player in registered investment advisor custody, with over 40% market share, and has recently pushed into wealth management with robo-advisory, direct indexing, and other managed-investment solutions.

Robinhood Markets Inc is creating a modern financial services platform. It designs its own products and services and delivers them through a single, app-based cloud platform supported by proprietary technology. Its vertically integrated platform has enabled the introduction of new products and services such as cryptocurrency trading, dividend reinvestment, fraud detection, derivatives, fractional shares, recurring investments, and others.

Founded in 2012, Coinbase is the leading cryptocurrency exchange platform in the United States. The company intends to be the safe and regulation-compliant point of entry for retail investors and institutions into the cryptocurrency economy. Users can establish an account directly with the firm, instead of using an intermediary, and many choose to allow Coinbase to act as a custodian for their cryptocurrency, giving the company breadth beyond that of a traditional financial exchange. While the company still generates the majority of its revenue from transaction fees charged to its retail customers, Coinbase uses internal investment and acquisitions to expand into adjacent businesses, such as prime brokerage and data analytics.

Interactive Brokers is a large, automated, retail and institutional brokerage that boasted nearly $780 billion in customer equity at the end of 2025. The company cut its teeth as a market maker, introducing US financial markets to automated and algorithmic training before expanding into brokerage services in 1993. The firm has a wide-ranging client base, with its best-in-class order execution and extremely low margin lending rates catering to a sophisticated audience of hedge funds, proprietary traders, and introducing brokers that account for about 45% of the firm’s commissions. With operations spanning more than 160 electronic exchanges, 36 countries, and 28 currencies, Interactive Brokers caters to a global clientele, with more than 80% of active accounts sitting outside the US.

LPL Financial is the largest US independent broker-dealer, with more than 32,000 financial advisors affiliated with its platform and roughly 11 million customer accounts at the end of 2025. The firm earns the bulk of its profit from interest income earned on client cash balances and from advisory fees and commissions tied to the $2.4 trillion in assets under management or advisory on its platform at year-end 2025. LPL specializes in the provision of turnkey wealth management services for affiliated independent advisors, but maintains a diverse array of affiliation modalities, running the gamut from more traditional employee models to a pure RIA custody approach. It earns tuck-in revenue from recordkeeping fees and the provision of software tools and services to its advisor base.

Hithink RoyalFlush Information Network Co Ltd is engaged in providing Internet financial information services and online financial software. The company's business includes an online market trading system, mobile financial information service, fund sales, financial big data processing, and cloud services. It serves individuals, brokers, funds, private placements, banks, insurance, government, and research Institutional clients.

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City, Tradeweb Markets is a leading fixed-income trading platform. While it does offer electronic processing for some voice-negotiated trades, the company focuses primarily on providing electronic trading networks that connect broker/dealers, institutional clients, and retail customers. While the company offers trading in a wide variety of products, the bulk of its business is in US and European government debt, mortgage-backed securities, interest-rate swaps, and US and international corporate bonds. The firm also sells fixed-income trading and price data, primarily through a deal with Refinitiv’s Eikon service.

Futu Holdings Ltd is an online broker providing one-stop online investing services. The company provides its services through its digital platform Futu NiuNiu, which includes market data, trading service, and news feed of Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, and the United States equity markets. It generates its revenue in the form of brokerage commission and handling charge services, and interest income.

XP Inc. is Brazil's leading technology-driven financial services platform and the country's largest independent brokerage firm. Founded in 2001 as an independent investment agency, XP has evolved into a massive, integrated financial ecosystem that challenges traditional legacy banks by providing low-fee financial products through an open-architecture platform.

Nordnet AB (publ) is a digital platform for savings and investments in the Nordics. The company operates in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Its purpose is to democratize savings and investments. It provides trading in a large number of equities, funds, and other types of securities from several markets at a low price, as well as pension savings without fixed fees. The firm also offers margin loans, private loans, and mortgages. There are a number of user-interfaces to choose from, such as web, app, or more trading applications. Digital financial guidance tools are offered to customers who want help and inspiration with their savings. It also operates the widely used social investment network in the Nordics, Shareville.

StoneX Group Inc is a brokerage and financial services firm. Its service offerings are execution, OTC / Market-Making, advisory services, payment solutions, market intelligence, Physical Trading and clearing services. The firm operates in four segments: Commercial, Institutional, Self-Directed/Retail, and Payments. Its customers include governmental and nongovernmental organizations, commercial banks, brokers, institutional investors, and investment banks. The company operates in the United States, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and other countries, out of which the majority of revenue is generated from the Middle East and Asia Region.

iCapital Network is a New York-headquartered fintech platform that equips wealth management firms, banks, and asset managers with technology for distributing private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and structured investments to high-net-worth individuals. Solutions cover digital enrollment, compliance monitoring, portfolio construction, risk analytics, and advisor training. The firm conducts fund due diligence through its research team and maintains offices in Zurich, London, Lisbon, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Toronto. iCapital Network earned Forbes FinTech 50 recognition from 2018 to 2022, Forbes America's Best Startup Employers in 2021 and 2022, and MMI/Barron’s Solutions Provider of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Founded in 2013, iCapital expanded via acquisitions from Deutsche Bank and Bank of America.

Carta is a San Francisco-headquartered transfer agent and equity management platform for private companies from seed to pre-IPO stages. The service digitizes stock certificates, options, warrants, and derivatives, providing real-time cap table visibility to shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal teams.