FI.R.A.

Fira offers an AI-driven financial research platform designed for investment professionals, consolidating internal documents, data rooms, and various external datasets into a single workspace. The platform provides multi-document Q&A capabilities, delivering auditable and cited answers from complex financial reports, presentations, and filings. Its technical approach emphasizes precision in processing intricate financial tables and scanned documents, offering granular source citations, robust search functions, and tools for visual data representation and direct extraction to Excel.

Founded by Alex Tkachenko and Alexey Taktarov, Fira emerged from the Winter 2025 Y Combinator batch. The founders recognized that financial analysts spend considerable time sifting through extensive reports, a task for which general AI tools often lack the necessary accuracy and domain-specific understanding. Alex Tkachenko previously founded a blockchain analytics startup and sold a crypto portfolio tracker, while Alexey Taktarov co-founded and served as CTO for resume.io, scaling it to over 45 million users.

The platform targets investment analysts within investment firms, banks, and boutique M&A firms, enabling them to accelerate research processes and analyses. Fira’s overarching mission is to develop a comprehensive research ecosystem that seamlessly integrates diverse data sources, automates repetitive workflows, and assists in generating investment documents, thereby allowing financial professionals to concentrate on strategic decision-making and client engagement.