Agentic AI analyst for financial research
HQ: London, United Kingdom | Founded: 2025 | Employees: 5 | Stage: Pre-Seed | Website: https://firaresearch.com
Fira is an agentic AI analyst platform for investment professionals. It accelerates financial research by rapidly searching and evaluating thousands of pages of company filings, earnings reports, and corporate documents. The platform delivers source-cited answers, verifiable financial calculations, and multi-document Q&A across internal proprietary records and external public data. Integrates directly with Companies House for UK company filings and partners with Quartr for qualitative research. Supports complex analytical workflows covering hundreds of public and private UK companies. Founded in 2025 by Alex Tkachenko (CEO) and Alexey Taktarov (CTO). Tkachenko previously founded Hashscan (blockchain analytics) and created Hodler (crypto portfolio tracker, sold in 2022). Taktarov co-founded resume.io (one of the largest resume builders, acquired in 2021, scaled from 0 to 45M+ users). He is the author of wouter, an open-source React router library with 7K GitHub stars and 800K monthly downloads, and a regular tech conference speaker. YC Winter 2025 batch. Raised $500K from Y Combinator. 5 employees. HQ in London, UK.
Fira has a strong founding team with track records (Taktarov's resume.io exit, Tkachenko's Hodler exit) and solid technical credentials (wouter React library with 800k monthly downloads). The focus on UK company filings and Companies House integration provides a differentiated angle vs. US-centric research tools. Key risk: competing with Bloomberg Terminal, AlphaSense, and other well-funded AI research platforms. Very early stage with only $500K and 5 employees.
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