Fintech startup Robinhood offers stock, option, and cryptocurrency trades with zero fees. In an ambitious task, it will soon launch an Initial Public Offering, or in other words a Robinhood IPO.

In light of this, the company is on the hunt for a chief financial officer (CFO) as it takes steps to go public.

Robinhood IPO

Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Thursday, Robinhood CEO Baiju Bhatt, spoke of how the startup has begun to search for a CFO, while at the same, is going through a host of audits in order to be regulatory compliant. The SEC and FINRA are both performing these audits.

Robinhood began cryptocurrency trading back in February. This was in an effort to bring in more revenue and from the start, the platform was popular, drawing over 1 million users to its services within a few weeks. That number has grown to over 5 million at the time of writing.

Following subsequent fundings rounds which it held in May, Robinhood was valued at $5.6 billion, making it the second most valuable fintech startup in the US.

And now we are to expect a Robinhood IPO.