About Finster

Finster was founded in 2023 by a team combining world-class AI expertise with deep knowledge of the financial services industry. The team came together to build a tool capable of understanding complex financial filings, citing every source, and integrating up-to-date market data.

Our mission

Purpose-built AI for investment research.
Generic AI tools don’t meet the data accuracy, timeliness and security standards required in finance. Finster was founded by experts in both AI and investment research to solve these challenges and build a platform tailored to the way analysts work.

The Challenge

Too much noise. Not enough time.
Analysts face an unrelenting stream of news, filings and disclosures that compete for their attention. Extracting material insights is slow and manual, eating into time better spent thinking critically and finding the ‘so what?’ The information overload is only getting worse, inviting missed opportunities and undifferentiated analysis.

Why Finster?

From information overload to insight advantage.
Finster lets analysts uncover hidden insights across thousands of filings, transcripts and disclosures with precision and speed. Built for the rigor of investment research, Finster automates the manual pre-work, allowing teams to focus on thesis development, scenario analysis and differentiated idea generation.

Leadership team:

founder and CEO

Sid Jayakumar

Sid founded Finster in 2023, after spending seven years as an AI researcher at Google DeepMind. He has also worked in the prime brokerage risk team at Morgan Stanley and holds a First Class degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

AI lead, founding team

Jishnu Mukhoti

Jishnu holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, where his research focused on designing methods for safely scaling modern AI systems. He has also worked in AI research at Meta AI and in software development at Amazon.

product lead, founding team

Seán Kilgarriff

Seán was previously LLM Lead within the AI Strategy team at J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank. In this role he focused on LLM governance, use case prioritization and roll-out, as well as broader AI build vs buy strategy. He was also previously a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group

Team experience:

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Investors

We are proud to be supported by leading investors and some of the brightest minds in AI. We are backed by Hoxton Ventures and exceptional angel investors such as the CEO and CTO of Cohere, and senior leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Thinking Machines, Rokos Capital Management, and JP Morgan amongst others. We’re thrilled to have them on board as we build the future of AI-driven investment research.