Altera, a Los Angeles, CA-based artificial intelligence company creating digital human beings, closed a $9m seed funding round.
The round, which brought total funding to $11.1m since inception in December 2023, was led by Patron and First Spark Ventures with participation from a16z SPEEDRUN, Mitch Lasky, Stephen Lim, Greg Harper, Bob Meese, Rich Aldrich, Vamos Ventures, Alumni Ventures, etc.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its development efforts.
Founded in December 2023 by Dr. Robert Yang, CEO, CSO Dr. Andrew Ahn, CTO Shuying Luo and CBO Nico Christie, Altera is building an AI agent capable of playing “Minecraft,” alongside human players. The company aims to build digital humans offering empathy, friendship and fun, and who are are capable and autonomous in the long term.
FinSMEs
08/05/2024