DriveWealth was founded in 2012 by Julie Coin and Robert Cortright. According to DriveWealth’s CEO in 2024, in a press announcement, the company is hoping for a 2026 IPO, however, no official announcement plans have been made.
DriveWealth is a developer of a cloud-based API-driven brokerage infrastructure. Per Forge data, DriveWealth has raised a total of $550.8 million over five funding rounds. Their latest funding round was August 20, 2021, in a Series D round. Key investors include Accel and Insight Partners.
These comments should not be interpreted to mean that the company is formally pursuing or foregoing an IPO.
DriveWealth is privately held and not traded on public markets, so pre-IPO investments are available only to accredited investors.
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Can you sell shares of DriveWealth before it goes public?
Yes, subject to any contractual or corporate transfer restrictions, it is possible to list your shares to sell while DriveWealth is still private. If you’re considering selling, you can register today for free to get started. Once registered, you can evaluate pricing insights and market activity to inform your decision, then post your shares for sale and set the terms, like quantity and price—all directly through our platform.
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What is the pre-IPO value of my DriveWealth shares?
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Is DriveWealth a publicly traded company?
DriveWealth is a private company and not publicly traded.
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Will DriveWealth go IPO?
DriveWealth has not yet filed for an IPO. However, it’s important to note that IPOs are not the sole avenue for a private company to transition to public trading. Private companies can also go public through alternative methods such as but limited to Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), direct listings, or mergers and acquisitions. Find out which companies are eyeing an IPO on our Tech IPO Calendar 2025.
What is DriveWealth’s IPO price?
The DriveWealth IPO price does not exist at this time, as DriveWealth is still a private company and has not yet conducted an IPO. To explore secondary market data and access private market pricing details and data that may be related to DriveWealth, register for Forge today.
For investors interested in companies that enable investing infrastructure, DriveWealth may be an option. The company is one of the pioneers of fractional trading technology, which helped fuel the Covid-era retail trading boom, which in turn helped accelerate DriveWealth's growth. And soon, retail investors might be able to gain direct exposure if DriveWealth goes public.
Papara, the market-leading Turkish fintech, announced at Money 20/20 Europe its partnership with DriveWealth, a leading financial technology platform providing Brokerage-as-a-Service. The partnership and investment product will provide Papara’s 20 million users with the ability to invest real-time in U.S. stocks on the Nasdaq and NYSE starting in October. Since 2020, the number of retail investors in Turkey has surged from 1.2 million to over 8 million. With DriveWealth’s industry-leading fractional investing solution, Papara users will be able to buy or sell fractional shares in U.S. equities and ETFs, creating a new generation of empowered retail investors.
DriveWealth, the SoftBank-backed start-up that helps fintech firms including Revolut offer stocks, is getting into cryptocurrency trading, CNBC has learned. The New Jersey based start-up, valued at $2.85 billion in a recent fundraising, is acquiring a crypto firm founded by Harvard-trained quants and launching two subsidiaries to handle and execute trades, according to DriveWealth CEO Bob Cortright. Unlike consumer-facing firms Coinbase or Robinhood , DriveWealth is a behind-the-scenes player.
DriveWealth, LLC, a pioneer in fractional investing and embedded finance, has formed a partnership with Grupo Bursátil Mexicano (GBM), the investment platform and brokerage company that is streamlining the investing sector with the goal of democratizing investing in Mexico. By leveraging DriveWealth’s real-time fractional trading tech and API-based brokerage infrastructure, Mexican investors will “gain affordable and expanded access to investing in U.S. equities,” according to the announcement.
DriveWealth, LLC, a pioneer in fractional investing and embedded finance, will work with Vector Capital Corredores de Bolsa SpA, a broker-dealer which partners up with Racional. Racional is a Chile-based, mobile-first investment platform that enables millennials and Gen Z investors to easily save using passive low-cost portfolios to achieve their financial goals. Leveraging DriveWealth’s real-time fractional trading technology and API-based brokerage infrastructure, Chilean investors will gain affordable access to investing in US equities for the first time.
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