Companies104 Funding$41.8B Rounds76 ▼1 mo Investors69 Eng roles4177 ● data fresh
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Wealthsimple

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Being better than a bank means more of everything. Spend, trade and invest with Wealthsimple. observed

fresh · evidence 9d ago 11 sources no confidence data
2.5/100
Venture signal
scored above 4% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

Funding
no round
2025-10-27
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
19 ▲+2
eng openings
Commercial
public pricing
homepage

Engineering openings 17 → 19 over 5d

Counted from the company's own job board — each point a dated observation.

10-09 1710-10 1810-14 19

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

api.production.wealthsimple.com product surface 09-19 api.sandbox.wealthsimple.com launch prep 09-19 dev.wealthsimple.com 09-19 staging.iad.wealthsimple.com launch prep 09-19 api.wealthsimple.com product surface 09-19 app.wealthsimple.com product surface 09-19 staging.wealthsimple.com launch prep 09-19 staging.yul.wealthsimple.com launch prep 09-19

Traction

Current round

No fundraising data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_recency (1% of the score).

↓ Scored on 1 of 4 components — funding_magnitude, adoption, developer had no computable metric.

8 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

Evaluation

How it's evaluated Four independent layers ▾

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Platform score derived
3/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
11/100
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VIX signals 8 hard signals across 1 source ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Team size (reported)
not provided
Open eng roles
19 observed
Total open roles
49 observed
Market & funding stage No signals collected yet ▾
No market & funding stage data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 2.5/100 for wealthsimple, composed from 1 of 4 components (emerging formula), discounted ×0.76 for 20% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.0334 0.0067

Evidence this score rests on

  • funding.round.announced_on 2026-09-19 https

Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor Wealthsimple: One Year Post-Acquisition ↗
  2. reported Round reported ↗
  3. rumor Wealthsimple to lay off 13% of staff ↗
  4. rumor Wealthsimple to Layoff 13% of Workforce ↗
  5. rumor Wealthsimple to layoff 13% of staff amid ‘market volatility’ ↗
  6. rumor Wealthsimple joins the fintech layoffs list ↗
  7. rumor Wealthsimple Raises Money at $4B Value; Drake Buys In ↗
  8. rumor Wealthsimple raises $750M from investor group including Drake, Ryan Reynolds ↗
  9. rumor Wealthsimple announces $114M investment led by TCV, claims $1.4B valuation ↗
  10. rumor WealthSimple Acquires 100% of SimpleTax ↗
  11. rumor Robo-advisor Wealthsimple raises another $37M from Power Financial ↗

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
Undisclosed
announced 2025-10-27 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2025-10-27
Money moved on or after
2025-10-27
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2025-10-27 by its own source.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk elevated · 0.38

Gray-market attention, not quality. 18+ HN mentions (peak 18 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: no primary-source corroboration. ▲ 18 Wealthsimple to layoff 13% of staff amid ‘market volatility’ 2022-06-15 ↗

Raw observations 190 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Wealthsimple observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
common_name Wealthsimple observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 318 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 superseded 0.20
community.hn.max_points 18 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 41 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 superseded 0.20
community.hn.mentions 18 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755434", "title": "Wealthsimple to layoff 13% of staff amid ‘market volatility’", "points": 18, "created_at": "2022-06-15", "evidence_type": "rumor", " observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-03 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755434", "title": "Wealthsimple to layoff 13% of staff amid ‘market volatility’", "points": 18, "created_at": "2022-06-15", "evidence_type": "rumor", " observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-03 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755434", "title": "Wealthsimple to layoff 13% of staff amid ‘market volatility’", "points": 18, "created_at": "2022-06-15", "evidence_type": "rumor", " observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-03 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755434", "title": "Wealthsimple to layoff 13% of staff amid ‘market volatility’", "points": 18, "created_at": "2022-06-15", "evidence_type": "rumor", " observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-03 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13881902", "title": "Anthony Bourdain on not having debt", "points": 318, "created_at": "2017-03-16"} observed artifact ↗ 2017-03-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13881902", "title": "Anthony Bourdain on not having debt", "points": 318, "created_at": "2017-03-16"} observed artifact ↗ 2017-03-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755434", "title": "Wealthsimple to layoff 13% of staff amid ‘market volatility’", "points": 18, "created_at": "2022-06-15"} observed artifact ↗ 2022-06-15 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755434", "title": "Wealthsimple to layoff 13% of staff amid ‘market volatility’", "points": 18, "created_at": "2022-06-15"} observed artifact ↗ 2022-06-15 normalized 0.20
description Another registered currency exchange with licenses in Canada. observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
description Being better than a bank means more of everything. Spend, trade and invest with Wealthsimple. observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.70
domain www.wealthsimple.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.95
funding.round.announced_on 2025-10-27 observed https 2026-09-19 normalized 0.80
funding.round.source_url https://www.reuters.com/business/wealthsimple-raises-c750-million-funding-round-hits-c10-billion-valuation-2025-10-27/ observed https 2026-09-19 normalized 0.80
jobs.board_url https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wealthsimple observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-09 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.engineering 17 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-09 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.engineering 18 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-10 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.engineering 19 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-14 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.total 45 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-09 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.total 48 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-10 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.total 46 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-13 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.total 49 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-14 normalized 0.85
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