Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Robinhood Markets, Inc. is a publicly traded financial-services and fintech company whose mission is to democratize finance for all. It operates a consumer financial platform spanning brokerage, crypto, retirement, cash management, Gold membership, prediction/event contracts, advisory, credit cards, private markets and related products.
Primary product
Robinhood mobile/web financial platform and brokerage app for commission-free investing and trading in stocks, ETFs, options, crypto and other products.
Founded
2013
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Team size
2,000–3,000; approximately 2,955 reported in 2026 company-profile data
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Financial services
Sub-industry
Online brokerage, fintech, digital investing and cryptocurrency
Offices
Business model
Stage
Public company; post-IPO financing history
Total raised
$6.2B
Latest round
Post-IPO secondary · May 2022
Latest amount
$648.3M
May 2022
Jan 2021
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Shiv Verma
Chief Financial Officer
Dan Gallagher
Chief Legal, Compliance and Corporate Affairs Officer
Steve Quirk
Chief Brokerage Officer
Connie Schan
Chief People Officer
Stephanie Guild
Chief Investment Officer
Johann Kerbrat
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Crypto and International
Lucas Moskowitz
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Robinhood describes its culture through customer focus, high performance, safety, one-team behavior, participation, first-principles thinking, and lean discipline. Current recruiting material emphasizes a small, elite, high-impact team, fast execution and AI fluency. Public employee/career sources indicate a structured hybrid/in-office cadence and potentially high-intensity workloads.
Work style
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job and benefits signals indicate salary plus equity, competitive benefits, 401(k) matching and location-based compensation. Robinhood explicitly says it sponsors eligible foreign-national candidates applying for US and UK roles, but not currently Canada; role and government approval are required. Specific compensation varies by role and location.
Benefits
Pricing
Generally commission-free trading for core stocks, ETFs, options and crypto products, with revenue from payment for order flow/spread economics where applicable, net interest, margin, interchange and other transaction economics; Robinhood Gold is a paid subscription with premium features.
Differentiators
Technology
Estimated revenue
Approximately $4B–$5B annual revenue; 2025 profile estimate was $4.5B. Q2 2026 net revenue was $1.31B, implying a substantially higher current annualized run rate, but full-year 2026 revenue was not available in the retrieved evidence.
Robinhood announced a reduction of approximately 10% of its workforce, reported as roughly 290 employees, while describing the action as an organizational evolution from a position of business strength; the company expected restructuring charges.
SourceSherwood, Robinhood's media arm, experienced an earlier round of staff reductions.
SourceRobinhood Investor Relations · Jul 2026
Reported Q2 net revenue of $1.31B, 32% year over year, 28.4M funded customers and 4.8M Gold subscribers; highlighted WonderFi acquisition, Robinhood Chain, prediction markets, cards and international expansion.
InvestmentNews · Jun 2026
Reported that the 10% workforce reduction affected Sherwood staff and followed an earlier media-arm reduction in January 2025.
Robinhood Engineering Blog · Jun 2026
Described the Ceres derivatives platform and its Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Kubernetes and AWS architecture.
Robinhood Investor Relations · Apr 2025
Q1 2025 revenue reached $927M, up 50% year over year; the company highlighted TradePMR, Gold growth, Bitstamp integration and expanded product plans.
128 jobs at Robinhood
Jan 2021 · Ribbit Capital
Jan 2020 · Sequoia Capital
Jan 2019 · Sequoia Capital
Jan 2018 · Sequoia Capital
Jan 2017 · DST Global
Jan 2016 · Index Ventures
Jan 2015 · New Enterprise Associates
Jan 2014 · Index Ventures
Oct 2013
Jeff Pinner
Chief Technology Officer
Founders
Baiju Bhatt
Co-founder; former co-CEO and Chief Creative Officer; current board member
Customers
Competitors
Robinhood completed the acquisition of TradePMR, an RIA custody and technology platform, disclosed in Q1 2025 results.
Robinhood closed its acquisition of WonderFi, a Canadian digital-asset company, marking entry into the Canadian region.
SourceManagement disclosed material ongoing risk areas including payment-for-order-flow regulation, credit losses, interest rates, regulatory enforcement and cybersecurity.
SourceRobinhood
Documents Robinhood Chain as an Ethereum-compatible Arbitrum-based Layer 2 with EVM tooling and blockchain infrastructure partners.