Wealthsimple Valuation, Funding & Investors

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.

Swissquote Group Holding SA is engaged in providing online financial and trading services. It provides a comprehensive suite of online financial services to a broad spectrum of customers, ranging from retail investors, affluent investors to professional and institutional customers. The Group operates through Swissquote Bank Ltd and globally under the Swissquote brand. It has two segments namely the Securities trading and the Leveraged forex. The Group’s revenues are mainly generated by a transaction fee for each transaction. Swissquote’s core competencies include stock market trading, trading and custody of crypto assets, Forex trading and the Robo-Advisor solution. In addition, Swissquote is active in the payment card, mortgage and leasing markets.

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.

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.

IG Group Holdings PLC provides online trading services to its clients. The majority of the company's revenue stems from its derivative products and contracts for difference (CFDs). The company operates through various segments which are The U.K. segment which derives its revenue from financial spread bets, CFDs, binary options, and execution-only stockbroking. The Australian segment derives its revenue from CFDs and binary options. The European segment derives its revenue from CFDs, binary options, and execution-only stockbroking. The Rest of the World segment derives its revenue from the operation of a regulated futures and options exchange as well as CFDs and binary options. The company generates more than half of its revenue from the U.K., followed by Europe and Australia.

BGC Group Inc is a brokerage and financial technology company that serves financial markets, energy, and commodities markets. Its service and product offerings include brokerage for a wide range of financial products, including fixed income, equities, commodities, derivatives, and real estate, software solutions for trading platforms, clearing, trade execution, and other back-office services. Its clients mostly include banks, financial institutions, and corporate clients. BGC operates in one reportable segment, which is providing brokerage services. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), followed by the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region.

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.

XTB SA is engaged in brokerage activities business. It is a Polish broker from the fin-tech sector, providing products and services dedicated to active investing, saving, and virtual payment management. The group conducts its operations through two business segments; the Retail segment includes the provision of trading in financial instruments for individual customers; the Institutional segment includes the provision of trading in financial instruments and offering trade infrastructure to entities (institutions), which in turn provide services of trading in financial instruments for their customers under their brand. It derives a majority of its revenue from the Retail segment.

Webull Corp is a digital investment platform built upon a next-generation globally infrastructure services. It strives to be the platform of choice for a new generation of investors by creating an efficient, low-cost, and easy-to-use investment platform. The company distinguishes itself from other investment service providers by offering a mobile-first user experience, a broad range of investment products, and extensive functionality constructed to help its customers build wealth over time. The company arms each customer with the tools it needs to develop into what it refers to as an informed investor - one who understands the market and has the confidence to succeed as an investor. The Webull platform originally provided users with free access to market data and analytical tools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Upgrade is a San Francisco-headquartered fintech company delivering personal loans, home improvement financing, auto loans and refinancing, plus credit cards that convert to fixed-rate installment plans. Its offerings extend to high-yield savings and rewards checking accounts, credit monitoring services, and educational resources for credit management. Upgrade Shopping provides cashback rewards at participating retailers to complement card benefits. Founded in 2017, the platform targets mainstream consumers with accessible banking and credit products.

FalconX is a San Mateo-headquartered digital asset prime brokerage serving institutional clients with trading execution, financing, credit, and custody across 200 cryptocurrencies. Founded in 2018, it connects to 80 exchanges for aggregated liquidity and employs quantitative models for optimal pricing in spot, derivatives, and OTC markets. Hedge funds, market makers, and family offices rely on its API-driven platform for portfolio management in global crypto markets.

Klarna is the largest pure-play in the buy now, pay later space. The company operates a two-sided network with a payment method at its core, but it is ultimately a lender. Merchants sign up with Klarna to increase turnover in their stores. Primarily, Klarna can provide merchants with higher conversion rates and average order values relative to other payment methods. Some merchants enter a symbiotic relationship with Klarna, advertising its brand on the product page to drive conversion and to benefit from Klarna’s brand value in the merchant’s sales funnel. Customers use Klarna for its ease of use, quick access to credit, zero-interest financing, and lower reminder fees.

Plata is a Mexico City-based fintech providing a no-annual-fee Mastercard credit card and buy-now-pay-later service. The platform offers up to 15% customizable cashback in partner categories, interest-free installments, Apple Pay support, and 24/7 fraud monitoring. Plata Difiere extends installment credit up to MXN 200,000 over 3-24 months without cards. Users manage digital cards and top-ups via app or cash at OXXO stores, targeting underserved consumers in Mexico's digital payments market.

Ualá is an Argentine fintech company offering a mobile-based financial ecosystem that includes Mastercard prepaid and debit cards, credit cards, savings accounts, personal loans, investment products, insurance, and merchant payment services. Founded in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri and headquartered in Buenos Aires, the platform originally launched as a prepaid card provider and has since expanded into a full-service digital banking operation. Ualá serves over 11 million customers across Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, with roughly one in five Argentine adults holding an account. The company acquired Mexican bank ABC Capital, granting it a local banking license to offer deposit and lending products in that market. Backed by investors including Allianz X, SoftBank, Tencent, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Soros Fund Management, Ualá reached a valuation of $3.2 billion following a $195 million funding round in March 2026.