Foresight News: Trading and investment broker Alpaca, an API broker for stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies for developers, announced that it has completed a $135 million funding round. Peak XV led the round, with participation from Elefund, Opera Tech Ventures (a venture capital firm under the French bank BNP Paribas group), Unbound, and others. The new funding will be used to expand agent-first brokerage infrastructure for tokenized markets and AI-native financial services.

Alpaca’s total funding amount reached $435 million, including debt financing mainly from Payward, the parent company of global digital asset platform Kraken, and BMO.