A $9 million seed round was concluded by Altera, an artificial intelligence startup located in Los Angeles, California that creates synthetic humans.
Investors
- Patron
- First Spark Ventures
- a16z SPEEDRUN
- Vamos Ventures
- Rich Aldrich
- Stephen Lim
- Mitch Lasky
- Bob Meese
- Rich Aldrich
- The investment raised the total fundraising to $11.1m since the company’s founding in December 2023.
Use of funds
The money will be used by the business to increase its development activities.
About Altera
Dr. Robert Yang, CEO, CSO Dr. Andrew Ahn, CTO Shuying Luo, and CBO Nico Christie founded Altera in December 2023 with the goal of creating an AI agent that can play “Minecraft” with gamers. The business wants to create long-term competent, self-sufficient digital individuals who can also give empathy, companionship, and pleasure.
