Our Story From the beginning... It all started in Manhattan back in 1986. Our founder, had a vision to build a technology company that customers could trust and where employees could feel fulfilled at the end of each workday. But first he needed a name. As he contemplated it over a nice glass of Cabernet from California it came to him, and Napa Group was born. From the Americas to Zurich, Napa Group has worked with the largest, most prestigious firms of Wall Street. After three decades of working with dozens of Wall Street Journal headliners, we are now sculpting the next generation of A-list firms: from seedlings to startups, founders who recognize the value of our experience, expertise, and execution. About Napa Domain Expertise We’ve seen it all, but over the years we’ve focused on a few areas in particular. Fintech Our roots have always been fintech. Napa was born on the trading floors of Wall Street. With deep experience in municipal bonds, corporate bonds, and private equity, our customers look to us to build platforms that automate manual tasks and simplify the complex ones. We help our clients discover, organize, act on, and share information more efficiently than ever before. Specifically, we’ve built: trading systems that handle the entire new issuance workflow for bonds compliance systems to handle risk, regulatory, and auditing remarketing systems that handle allocation, position management, clearance & settlement Many of our platforms have common requirements like analytics/reporting, document management/workflow, and messaging/notifications. Although the requirements for these features might change from one system to the next, we often leverage the core functionality from our libraries to accelerate time to market. Startups New ideas, and the entrepreneurs who generate them, are what move industries forward. Building a startup is all about nurturing an idea and helping it grow. We know how important it is for you to pick a technical partner that you can trust. Having worked with countless startups, we’ve perfected a process to deliver value early and often to our partners. Starting with our initial contact, we work to deeply understand your vision and provide guidance on the appropriate path forward. This might involve creating a prototype, performing market research, or helping you organize a high-level roadmap. No two startups are the same, but Napa has formulated a workflow that helps quickly and efficiently move the entire team in the right direction. Auctions Napa has a long history building auction systems that push the boundaries. Interestingly, we’ve built auction systems that serve vastly different industries. One of our earliest systems was a trading platform to manage the workflow of auction rate bonds, a niche type of fixed income security. That application evolved and expanded over time to become DART™ and START™, two of our flagship products that are widely used today by many of the top broker dealers on Wall Street. They use custom logic to handle the entire process of bidding, applying complex rulesets, and running reverse Dutch auction algorithms to determine the winners. More recently, as a change of pace from our typical Wall Street customers, we partnered with Acker Merrall & Condit, the world’s largest wine auction house, to build their auction website and corresponding mobile app. Built using a combination of our auction expertise and our deep technical skillset, we created a personalized and polished experience that the world’s great collectors of fine and rare wine would expect. Our latest foray in the auction world is Gala, a platform that assists organizations running silent auctions for charitable fundraising. Case Study The Napa Creed Culture is the backbone of our company. Over the years, we’ve evolved and grown, but these core values have helped us to do our best work. They guide what we do, why we create, and whom we hire. I am a lifelong learner. I will always help a colleague in need and ask for help when I need it. I will work to build a culture of trust and respect. I will do more than what is asked of me. I will work to delight our customers and deliver value to them quickly. Ready to Talk? No pressure. We're here to listen. Give us a shout when you are ready to discuss your needs. Contact Us SERVICES Cloud Software Engineering DevOps User Experience Security & Compliance ABOUT NAPA Our Story Our Team The Napa Way Careers STAY IN TOUCH Privacy Policy © Napa Group, LLC 2021