Fiscal.ai

2017-01

Started The Canadian Investor Podcast (TCI) focused on stocks and self-directed investing

2019-01

TCI growing steadily, Dennis learning from famous wealth managers and investors as podcast guests

2020-01

TCI network gaining significant traction in Canadian investing space

2021-10

Co-launched Stratosphere.io as 'Yahoo Finance on steroids' - financial data aggregator for TCI listeners

2022-01

Stratosphere growing through podcast audience, aggregating public company KPI data

2022-06

Stratosphere reaches meaningful user base but considered 'not venture-scale'

2022-09

Joined TinySeed Fall 2022 accelerator cohort with Stratosphere (~$7K MRR)

2022-11

Raised $250K pre-seed via SAFE from Stratosphere users - wealth managers, analysts, Toronto angels

2023-01

Co-founders begin experimenting with combining LLMs and their aggregated financial data

2023-04

Launched FinChat as 'experimental' AI-powered financial research tool. Launch tweet goes viral.

2023-05

FinChat surpasses 100,000 users, team realizes this is venture-scale opportunity

2023-06

Heavy inbound investor interest from family offices to tier-one VCs, Dennis targets Social Leverage specifically

2023-08

Building out FinChat's subscription product and API capabilities

2023-10

FinChat and Stratosphere merge into single product under FinChat name

2023-11

Raised $1.5M seed round from Social Leverage (Robinhood, eToro investor). Matt Ober joins board.

2023-12

FinChat hits $1M ARR with 160,000+ users

2024-01

Team focused on building B2B API product alongside consumer terminal

2024-04

One year anniversary of FinChat launch, platform growing steadily

2024-06

API product gaining traction with fintech platforms and trading apps

2024-09

Revenue growth accelerating with dual B2C terminal + B2B API model

2024-12

Reached $2.5M+ ARR with ~15% month-over-month growth

2025-02

VanEck ($119B asset manager) makes $1.5M strategic investment to use Fiscal.ai data for ETF business

2025-04

Platform covers 100,000+ global companies with detailed KPI data for 2,000+ companies

2025-06

Rebranded from FinChat to Fiscal.ai, raised $10M Series A led by Portage Ventures

2025-06

350,000+ registered users, top fintech platforms leveraging APIs to serve millions of end users

2025-09

Enterprise product planned within 30 days of Series A, actively hiring to scale team

2025-12

Targeting ~$10M ARR by year end based on 15% MoM growth trajectory