Skip to main content
DriveWealthAward

DriveWealth founder Robert Cortright named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 New York winner.

What happened

Robert Cortright at DriveWealth Holdings, Inc. received award EY Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2026 New York Award on Jun 22nd '26.

Source

Article excerpt

Highlighted: the sentence this signal was extracted from

DriveWealth founder Robert Cortright named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 New York winner. June 22, 2026 Robert Cortright Robert Cortright, founder and executive chairman of DriveWealth, has been named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2026 New York Award winner, recognizing his role in expanding access to financial markets through technology-driven investing infrastructure and pioneering fractional share ownership. The award highlights Cortright's entrepreneurial track record and his efforts to reshape how individual investors participate in capital markets. It marks the second time he has received regional recognition from EY, having previously won in 2009 for FX Solutions, the foreign exchange trading platform he co-founded that helped bring retail investors into a market traditionally dominated by institutions. Cortright founded DriveWealth in 2012 after identifying similar barriers in the equities market. High stock prices, geographic limitations and legacy brokerage infrastructure often prevented many investors from accessing public markets. DriveWealth was established to address those challenges through technology that enables broader participation in investing. One of the company's most significant contributions was the introduction of fractional share trading, allowing investors to purchase portions of a stock rather than an entire share. The model has since...

Keep reading with a free account

The rest of this article, and every signal for DriveWealth, is in your free account.

Extracted by Autobound

From the Signal API record
Event
Award

What this signalsAn award often comes during a period of growth.

Takes effect
Jun 22, 2026

The full record

From the Signal API record

People

  • Robert CortrightNamed in the story

Details

Award
EY Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2026 New York Award

Extraction

Confidence
87%
Detected
Jun 22, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
receives_award

Use this data

Get every award signal for DriveWealth and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.

  1. Ask Claude about it

    Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at DriveWealth this week?”

  2. Send it to your own tools

    The Signal API returns award signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.

  3. Try it free

    Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.

    Start Free1,000 free credits

The API returns more than this page shows

This page shows a preview. The full news record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.

Company

  • linkedin_urlValue in the API
  • industriesValue in the API
  • employee_count_lowValue in the API
  • employee_count_highValue in the API
  • revenueValue in the API
  • descriptionValue in the API

Signal

  • signal_nameValue in the API
  • associationValue in the API
Show the full JSONThe record on this page and the API request

GET /v1/signals/ded5731e-b840-4ce1-9d4a-ceb9676b09e0 returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for drivewealth.com.

{
  "signal_id": "ded5731e-b840-4ce1-9d4a-ceb9676b09e0",
  "signal_type": "news",
  "signal_subtype": "receives_award",
  "detected_at": "2026-06-22T16:52:13+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "DriveWealth",
    "domain": "drivewealth.com"
  },
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.citybiz.co/article/863759/drivewealth-founder-robert-cortright-named-ey-entrepreneur-of-the-year-2026-new-york-winner",
    "award": "EY Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2026 New York Award",
    "title": "DriveWealth founder Robert Cortright named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 New York winner.",
    "contact": "Robert Cortright",
    "excerpt": "DriveWealth founder Robert Cortright named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 New York winner.\n\nJune 22, 2026\n\nRobert Cortright\n\nRobert Cortright, founder and executive chairman of DriveWealth, has been named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2026 New York Award winner, recognizing his role in expanding access to financial markets through technology-driven investing infrastructure and pioneering fractional share ownership.\n\nThe award highlights Cortright's entrepreneurial track record and his efforts to reshape how individual investors participate in capital markets. It marks the second time he has received regional recognition from EY, having previously won in 2009 for FX Solutions, the foreign exchange trading platform he co-founded that helped bring retail investors into a market traditionally dominated by institutions.\n\nCortright founded DriveWealth in 2012 after identifying similar barriers in the equities market. High stock prices, geographic limitations and legacy brokerage infrastructure often prevented many investors from accessing public markets. DriveWealth was established to address those challenges through technology that enables broader participation in investing.\n\nOne of the company's most significant contributions was the introduction of fractional share trading, allowing investors to purchase portions of a stock rather than an entire share. The model has since...",
    "summary": "Robert Cortright at DriveWealth Holdings, Inc. received award EY Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2026 New York Award on Jun 22nd '26.",
    "planning": false,
    "image_url": "https://www.citybiz.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Robert-Cortright.jpg",
    "confidence": 0.8677,
    "published_at": "2026-06-22T16:52:13Z",
    "effective_date": "2026-06-22",
    "article_sentence": "Robert Cortright, founder and executive chairman of DriveWealth, has been named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2026 New York Award winner, recognizing his role in expanding access to financial markets through technology-driven investing infrastructure and pioneering fractional share ownership."
  }
}

Long text fields are shortened on this page.

Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.