When the streets of Wall Street started looking like a Reddit forum and TikTok traders started moving markets, most folks rolled their eyes. Steven Wang saw an opening. Not just to ride the wave, but to engineer the surfboard, pave the boardwalk, and license a entire beach. Today, that bet just cashed big, dub has locked in a $30M Series A, co-led by Notable Capital and Neo, with a $5.5M venture debt kicker from Silicon Valley Bank (by way of First Citizens Bank). This ain’t play money. This is momentum.
Let’s rewind. Wang’s no stranger to building where others stall. A Harvard dropout with stints at Apple and the City of Detroit, he’s worked on billion-dollar systems and grassroots reinvention. Add in experience at Dorm Room Fund and Coast App, and what you get is someone fluent in both boardroom and back-alley innovation. And now? He’s building something loud enough to echo through both.
dub isn’t just another fintech with pastel charts. It’s a regulated copy trading platform, translation: everyday investors can mirror the moves of pros, influencers, and even the political class with a single tap. Think social media meets the stock market, but with SEC compliance and real-time execution. It's not about watching whales swim, it's about riding their wake, legally and instantly.
Let’s talk traction. Over 1M downloads in under a year, straight out of stealth. This isn’t growth, it’s ignition. Powered by a product that lets Gen Z, Millennials, and anyone with a dollar get into the game, dub turns passive observers into active participants. You’re not just watching the markets anymore, you’re in the front row with a copy/paste portfolio and skin in the game.
And it gets deeper. Through DASTA Financial, dub is SEC-registered, FINRA and SIPC compliant, and SOC 2 Type II certified. That means this isn’t some fintech side hustle, it’s real-deal infrastructure with the pipes, licenses, and protections to back it up. Meanwhile, creators can actually monetize their portfolios. You heard that right, a royalty system where the better your plays, the bigger your payday. Robin Hood might’ve taken from the rich, but dub’s letting creators cash in without stealing a thing.
This round? It’s jet fuel. The funds are aimed squarely at scaling the creator-driven marketplace, rolling out a free app tier, and pushing deeper into the U.S. market. dub isn’t just unlocking access, it’s gamifying it, securitizing it, and socializing it in ways that fit how the next generation learns, shares, and builds wealth.
Big ups to Steven Wang for building a platform that doesn’t just follow trends, it mirrors the future. Props to Notable Capital, Neo, Tom Bernthal, PEAK6 Strategic Capital, and Correlation Ventures for seeing the signal through the noise.
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