Altera

Private

Applied AI research company building autonomous, collaborative, and socially intelligent AI agents (digital human beings). Founded by computational neuroscientists from MIT, Stanford, and Google. Gained prominence through Project Sid, deploying 1,000+ AI agents in Minecraft who autonomously developed specialized roles, economies, and governance. Now Fundamental Research Labs.

Founders Robert Yang, Andrew Ahn, Nico Christie

CEO Robert Yang

Company

Founded

2023

Headquarters

San Francisco, United States

Financials

Total Funding

$44M

Sectors

Artificial Intelligence

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Funding History

3 rounds

Series A Aug 1, 2025

$33M

Prosus Ventures (Lead) Andreessen Horowitz Patron First Spark Ventures

Seed May 8, 2024

$9M

First Spark Ventures (Lead) Patron (Lead) Andreessen Horowitz

Pre Seed Dec 1, 2023

$2M

Andreessen Horowitz (Lead)

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