A broker-neutral app for shareholder voting, governance, and activist engagement — one place to participate in every company you hold, across every brokerage you use.
Most retail investors hold across three or four brokerages. Each one mails a different ballot, points to a different portal, and gives no context for how anyone else is voting. So most shares go unvoted, every year, by tens of billions.
Stakehold links your accounts, surfaces what’s actually on the proxy across all of them, and shows how the funds and proxy advisors you trust are voting. You vote once; it routes back to the brokerage of record.
A user-facing app for retail investors, and the engagement layer underneath it for the brokers, issuers, and funds that depend on them.
BlackRock launched Voting Choice. Vanguard followed with a pass-through pilot. State Street and Fidelity have signaled the same direction. Index voting power is being unwound back to the underlying holders, and the surface that delivers it to them does not yet exist.
Retail ownership is also at a generational high. Roughly a quarter of U.S. equity volume is retail today, up from a tenth in 2019. The audience for this is bigger than it has ever been, and they’ve never had a real tool.
Heads-down on the MVP. Talking to brokers, issuers, and early investors. If any of this maps to a problem on your roadmap, the email below is the right one.