# Istra Research Ltd.

> Istra Research Ltd. is the Israel research division of Istra LLC, a proprietary quantitative trading business founded in 2008. Based in Lod, its researchers and engineers develop automated trading strategies and the low-latency software, hardware and data infrastructure used to deploy them in financial markets.

- **Founded:** 2008
- **Headquarters:** Lod, Israel
- **Founders:** Michael Lewin (Co-founder; listed as CEO in company databases), Jonathan Lewin (Co-founder; listed as COO in Startup Nation Finder), Shlomo Ahal (Co-founder; listed as CTO in company databases), Alon Wasserman (Co-founder; listed as CIO in IVC and Crunchbase)
- **Products:** Proprietary automated trading strategies, Quantitative research, Trading technology and infrastructure
- **Notable:** Operating history dating to 2008, confirmed by its official website., Battery Ventures lists Istra Research as an active portfolio company., Publicly describes an integrated research, software, FPGA and petabyte-scale data infrastructure.

## Products & services

- **Proprietary automated trading strategies** — Internally developed algorithms deployed in financial markets; includes high-frequency trading research.
- **Quantitative research** — Investigation of market phenomena using statistics, machine learning, signal processing and data mining to develop and improve trading strategies.
- **Trading technology and infrastructure** — Low-latency software and networks, FPGA hardware, high-performance computing, an on-premise backtesting grid and cloud-based distributed compute with petabyte-scale storage.

## Achievements

- Operating history dating to 2008, confirmed by its official website.
- Battery Ventures lists Istra Research as an active portfolio company.
- Publicly describes an integrated research, software, FPGA and petabyte-scale data infrastructure.

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Company news links to a Computer Architecture in HFT post.
- **2025-10** — Company news highlights the Core C++ Conference 2025.
- **2025-02** — Company describes a Transformers Guts Workshop with One Shot Learning.

## Links

- Website: https://istrallc.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/istraresearch/

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