Financial Services

Seeking Alpha Corporate Office

Seeking Alpha was founded in 2004 by David Jackson. The company is a crowd-sourced content service for the financial markets.

The company publishes articles and research that covers a broad range of stocks, asset classes, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and investment strategies.

Unlike other equity research platforms, insight is provided by contributors including a base of investors and industry experts on the buy side rather than those on the sell-side.

As of January 2021, the company states that it has 10 million registered users and more than 17 million unique visitors each month.

The site provides articles from independent contributors, rather than staff.

As of January 2021, the company reported that it has over 16,000 contributors who publish over 7,000 articles and transcripts each month and that it covers 8,000 ticker symbols and has an archive of over 1 million articles.

The company boasts that most investors receive better returns by taking the advice in articles posted in Seeking Alpha than using conventional wisdom or sources.

Seeking Alpha maintains a corporate office in New York, New York.

Robinhood Corporate Office

Robinhood was founded in April 2013 by Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, who had previously built high-frequency trading platforms for financial institutions in New York City.

Robinhood Markets is an American financial services company that allows users to purchase stocks, crypto currency, and exchange-traded funds easily and without commissions by using a mobile phone app.

The company earns its revenue from three main sources: interest earned on customers’ cash balances, selling order information to high-frequency traders (a practice for which the SEC opened an investigation into the company in September 2020) and margin lending.

In March 2022, Robinhood launched the Robinhood Cash Card, a debit card that allows users to automatically invest in assets like stocks and crypto when spending money.

Robinhood Markets went public on the NASDAQ in July 2021 under the ticker symbol HOOD.

FTX, the cryptocurrency platform, has approximately $450 million invested in Robinhood. It is unknown what will happen to the company’s shares since it has filed for bankruptcy and is being investigated for fraud.

Robinhood maintains a corporate office in Menlo Park, California.

JP Morgan Corporate Office

Originally founded in 1799 as The Bank of Manhattan, the name was changed to JP Morgan when John Pierpont Morgan purchased the bank in 1877.

As of 2022, JP Morgan is the largest banking institution in the United States and the 5th largest bank in the world.

The J.P. Morgan bank is used by investment banking, asset management, private banking, private wealth management, and treasury services divisions.

In 2000, J.P. Morgan merged with Chase Manhattan Bank, thereby forming the J.P. Morgan Chase Bank.

The Chase brand is used for credit card services in the United States and Canada, along with retail and commercial banking services in the UK and the United States.

Both the retail and commercial bank and the bank’s corporate office are currently located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City after the previous headquarters, located across the street, was demolished. A new headquarters building is being built on the same street.

In September 2022, the company invested $20 million in the digital health company Let’s Get Checked.

Also in September 2022, J.P. Morgan investing experts stated that the company highly recommends energy stocks.

J.P. Morgan currently maintains a corporate office on Madison Avenue in New York, New York.

Affirm Corporate Office

Affirm was founded in 2012 by Max Levchin, Nathan Gettings, Jeffrey Kaditz, and Alex Rampel. The company operates an online financial technology platform as a financial lender of installment loans for consumers to use at the point of sale to finance a purchase.

The company announced a partnership with Walmart in February 2019. Using this partnership, Affirm loans are available to customers in-store and on the Walmart website.

Affirm has also partnered with e-commerce platforms including Shopify, BigCommerce, and Zen-Cart.

The company is also Amazon’s exclusive buy now, pay later partner in the United States, at least through January 2023.

The company has taken some heat for allowing the platform to be used for gun purchases, charging higher interest rates that leave many consumers disenfranchised.

Affirm went public on the NASDAQ in late 2020 under the ticker symbol AFRM.

In July 2022, the company stock saw an increase of more than 25 percent, causing some people to wonder if the stock is a good buy or not.

Affirm maintains a corporate office in San Francisco, California.

UpStart Corporate Office

UpStart is an AI lending platform created and operated by ex-Google employees, former President of Enterprise Giigke, Paul Gu, and Anna Counselman, former Manager of Global Enterprise Customer Programs and Gmail Consumer Operations at Google.

The company first launched in April 2012 with an Income Share Agreement offering, which enabled individuals to raise money by contracting to share a percentage of their future income.

In May 2014, Upstart pivoted away from this product and more towards personal loans. With this Change, Upstart began offering a traditional 3-year loan and has since expanded to offer a 5-year loan product as well.

In late 2020, Upstart went public on the NASDAQ under the symbol: UPST.

Unfortunately, due to rising inflation, Upstart has experienced falling stock numbers in 2022.

UpStart maintains a corporate office in San Mateo, California.