
Founded by Edward Huang & Robin Gan
Ed was a hedge fund analyst at Balyasny, and before that was at Goldman Sachs. He solo-founded finbar up to first revenue and now leads product and commerce. He is a CFA charterholder.
Robin was a software engineer at Thought Machine, working on a globally deployed cloud-native banking platform. He now leads the finbar tech effort.
They have been close friends for 13 years, through school, then Oxford, then as roommates in London – and of course now as co-founders!
If you’ve ever spent hours copying data from a bunch of PDFs into a spreadsheet, you understand the core problem they solve!
Why can they do this better than others? Financial data is inherently very messy – they have spent more than a year building a highly bespoke pipeline geared for financial data: numeric algorithms, text processing, OCR, LLMs, and more. This means in minutes they can provide complete series data from any set of documents: PDFs, Excels, websites, scans, etc.
finbar also understand the financial domain intimately well – their starting point has always been to build something that would have saved them hours per day as hedge fund analysts.
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If you spend time working with financial data in any field, they believe they can save you valuable time. finbar is live with several multi-billion AUM hedge funds but are also very interested in speaking to anyone in banking, research, PE, VC, accounting, or corporate. They would love to help you!