Altara secures $7 million in seed funding to unify fragmented data in physical sciences R&D

San Francisco-based Altara, founded in 2025 by Eva Tuecke (former Fermilab and SpaceX researcher) and Catherine Yeo (former AI engineer at Warp), raised $7 million in seed funding led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Jeff Dean.

Altara builds an AI layer that consolidates scattered technical data—sensor logs, temperature readings, historical failure reports—from spreadsheets and legacy systems into a single platform, designed to help companies building batteries, semiconductors, and medical devices diagnose failures.

The startup claims its AI compresses weeks or months of manual data triaging into minutes, addressing a workflow where engineers manually cross-check multiple data sources to understand why a product failed during testing.