Nico Christie

Founder

Co-founder and CBO of Altera (Fundamental Research Labs). Previous entrepreneur with a startup that scaled to millions in revenue. Dropped out of MIT MBA to launch Altera.

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Founder

Companies

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Altera $44M
Private Founder

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.

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