Freeport Markets · Jul 2026
Company post announcing the launch of Freeport Terminal, the web terminal built around the same market-feed and context workflow as the mobile app.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Freeport Markets is a New York-based, YC Fall 2025-backed financial services / fintech startup building a self-custodial trading app that combines 24/7 trading, pre-IPO exposure, and AI-generated market intelligence in one mobile interface.
Primary product
Self-custodial trading app with AI market intelligence and pre-IPO / perpetual futures exposure
Founded
2025
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Financial Services
Sub-industry
DeFi trading platform / prime brokerage
Offices
New York, New York, United States
121 Glenhaven Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-4044, USA (corporate address listed on Google Play)
Business model
Self-custodial consumer trading platform
Transaction fees on perpetual futures
Spread / routing fee capture on executed trades
Funding
Stage
Pre-Seed
Total raised
$2.3M
Latest round
Pre-Seed
Latest amount
$2.3M
Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Public posts and hiring messages suggest a founder-led, high-agency, fast-moving, experimentation-heavy culture that values shipping quickly, content, and go-to-market hustle.
Product & market
Pricing
No platform fees on basic swaps; perpetual futures carry trading fees, and third-party onramp/network fees may apply.
Differentiators
- —Self-custodial embedded-wallet model
- —24/7 access across stocks, crypto, commodities, FX, rates, and pre-IPO exposure
- —AI analyst that turns social/news flow into trade ideas
- —Pre-IPO exposure to names like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic
- —Up to 50x leverage on supported products
- —No account, deposit, or maintenance fees on the core product
Technology
Privy embedded wallets
Solana
Ethereum / EVM
Hyperliquid
Apple Pay
Google Pay
X (Twitter) signal ingestion
Reddit signal ingestion
Substack / research publishing
AI / LLM-driven market analysis
Crossmint onramp integration
Customers
Crypto-adjacent retail investors
Long-term investors
Mobile-first traders
Users seeking pre-IPO/private-market exposure
People who want 24/7 access to markets
Scale & contact
Latest news
Alliance · Jun 2026
Alliance’s launch post describes Freeport as a retail trading app that connects breaking news to structured trade ideas and highlights founder backgrounds and product positioning.
Freeport Research · Jun 2026
Official explainer of the product, custody model, fees, supported assets, and how the app routes orders and creates embedded wallets.
Freeport Research · May 2026
Official performance article describing the company’s backtested AI recommendations and headline performance metrics.
The Logbook / Substack · Apr 2026
Founder-published analysis of early user trading results, volume, and the factors that contributed to returns.
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