Tavern Research
Market Research
4open roles
$1.2Mlatest round · Venture round · Jan 2025 · 21 mo ago
19team · US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Btruth index, 75 of 100
Overview
Tavern Research specializes in opinion research, AI-powered content creation, message testing, and strategic insights to inform campaigns and influence public opinion effectively.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 4 open roles at Tavern Research. Tavern Research is headquartered in Chicago, United States. It was founded in 2024. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $1.2M, announced in 2025.
- Open roles
- 4Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Founded
- 2024Alion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 10+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $1.2MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
- Latest round
- Venture - Series Unknown · $1.2M · Jan 21, 2025SEC Form D filing · sec.gov
- Visa sponsorship, United States
- 3 · H-1B filings in 12 monthsUS Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 16, 2026
- Technologies in its job postings
- 8Named in its job postings
Official records
How Tavern Research hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Tavern Research scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$1.2M
1 round on record
Latest round
$1.2M
Venture round · Jan 2025 · 21 mo ago
Team
19
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
4
open roles
The money's age
Due for its next round
21 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jan 2025 | $1.2M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Tavern Research Inc | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Avi ZenilmanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Keenan CresslanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Matthew LackeyExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Justin BurchardExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Visa sponsorship
3
H-1B filings in 12 months
$123k
Median offered salary
4
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Survey researchers
2
Software developers
1
In the register as Tavern Research Inc, Chicago, IL
Other sponsors in the same field
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Gallup 
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 16, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
31/100
Slowing
Open positions
4
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Data Science
50% ▼
Industrial Engineering
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$1.2M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $1.2M | Details |
People
Avi Zenilman
Executive Officer, Director
Keenan Cresslan
Executive Officer, Director
Matthew Lackey
Executive Officer, Director
Justin Burchard
Executive Officer, Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Tavern Research over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
85/100
Languages
Python
JavaScript
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Chicago
Chicago
United States
HQ
4 open roles 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Industrial Engineering
How to cite this page
Alion, "Tavern Research: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/tavernresearch
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