# Albert Malikov

> Albert Malikov is the founder and CEO of Stacks, a London-based startup building agentic AI for enterprise accounting and the month-end financial close. A former Head of International Product at Plaid and a product lead on Uber's Money team, he raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed in February 2026, less than a year after emerging from stealth, with customers including Epidemic Sound, Pleo and Bloom & Wild closing their books 50-60% faster.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Stacks
- **Organizations:** Stacks, Plaid, Uber, inShopper, Mail.Ru Group, UBS Investment Bank
- **From:** Russia
- **Nationality:** Russian
- **Education:** Master of Business Administration (MBA), MIT Sloan School of Management, Master's Degree in Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- **Known for:** Raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed in February 2026, less than a year after emerging from stealth, Onboarded 30+ enterprise customers including Epidemic Sound, Pleo, Cleo and Bloom & Wild, Built Plaid's leading open banking platform in Europe and a vertically integrated team of 100+

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Analyst at UBS Investment Bank, focused on Emerging Markets Equity
- **early career** — Co-founded inShopper, a cash-back service later acquired by Mail.Ru Group
- **—** — Product lead on Uber's Money team - payments, identity, verification and risk
- **—** — Head of International Product at Plaid, building Europe's open banking platform and a 100+ person team
- **2024** — Founded Stacks
- **2025-02** — Stacks raises seed funding led by General Catalyst (with EQT Ventures)
- **2026-02** — Stacks raises $23M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners

## Achievements

- Raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed in February 2026, less than a year after emerging from stealth
- Onboarded 30+ enterprise customers including Epidemic Sound, Pleo, Cleo and Bloom & Wild
- Built Plaid's leading open banking platform in Europe and a vertically integrated team of 100+
- Co-founded inShopper, acquired by Mail.Ru Group
- Stacks delivers an estimated 100,000+ hours of annual time savings across finance teams

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Stacks raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with EQT Ventures, General Catalyst and S16VC participating.

## Links

- Website: https://stacks.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertmalikov/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKsyz_mQlwI

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Last updated: 2026-06-04