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Alpha Vantage

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Alpha Vantage offers free stock APIs in JSON and CSV formats for realtime and historical stock market data, options, forex, commodity, cryptocurrency feeds and over 50 technical indicators. Global market news API and sentiment scores powered by AI and machine learning. Supports intraday, daily, weekly, and monthly quotes and technical analysis with

Founded 2017Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Alpha Vantage provides enterprise-grade financial market data through a set of powerful and developer-friendly data APIs and spreadsheets. Whether you need traditional asset classes (e.g., stocks, ETFs, commodities), economic metrics, foreign exchange rates, cryptocurrencies, fundamental data or even technical indicators, Alpha Vantage is your one-stop shop for global market data delivered through REST APIs.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Olivier Porte

Founder

I was born in London, UK and raised in Tokyo, Japan and the Bay Area. I co-founded Alpha Vantage in 2017, an API/dev tools company that was fortunate to be in the Summer 2018 batch. Today I continue to run Alpha Vantage day-to-day while also doing angel investing (mostly YC startups) on the side.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
8team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2017 · Source

Origins

Alpha Vantage began as a passion project started by the founders while they were attending grad school together. The idea was conceived through a shared interest in the stock markets and investing as well as a fundamental desire to make something that the founders themselves would want to use. Truthfully, the founders did not originally build Alpha Vantage with the intention of creating a business out of it, but the exponential user adoption and intensity of usage made the decision to start a business natural and obvious - as well as the best way for us to serve our users (and eventually paying customers).

Founder account As recorded 2026-09-15

News & product activity

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedBoston, MA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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