# Joshua S. Levine

> Joshua S. Levine is a seed investor at Sharewave backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sharewave](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sharewave-3)
- Location: Greenwich, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jslevineny

Joshua S. Levine is a seed investor at Sharewave in Greenwich focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Joshua S. Levine

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 100% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 100% |
| InsurTech | 1 | 50% |
| Developer APIs | 1 | 50% |
| Trading Platform | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shur | Shur is a B2B2C connecting the financial services industry to millions of Professionals with Student Loans. Our company-based financial wellness programs integrate alternative credit scoring, advice, insurance, and banking. Borrowers move from debt to wealth creation, while we build new revenue for banks and other financial institutions. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Alpaca | Alpaca is a financial technology company that provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure for programmatic access to stock, options, and cryptocurrency markets, enabling businesses and individual traders to integrate trading and investing capabilities into their applications. Its platform offers REST, WebSocket, and event-driveninterfaces that support algorithmic trading, automated strategy execution, real-time market data, backtesting, and portfolio management workflows. Alpaca’s services also include brokerage account functionality, clearing and settlement services, and tools that allow firms to embed investing features into their products or to build custom trading systems on top of its API-centric architecture. The company supports global fintech partners with solutions such as tokenization, high-yield cash programs, multi-leg options trading, and advanced order types that align with diverse trading and investment use cases. Its technology is used by developers, quant traders, fintech platforms, and financial institutions seeking programmable market access and integrated financial services. | $3M | Seed | Oct 24, 2018 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Archetype Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetype-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Berkeley Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berkeley-angel-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brown Venture Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brown-venture-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [D4V](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d4v) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [New York Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-york-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sharewave

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Sharewave.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Joshua S. Levine | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joshua-levine |

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## FAQ

### What does Joshua S. Levine invest in?

Joshua S. Levine invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and InsurTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Joshua S. Levine last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joshua S. Levine closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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