Alkera AI (YC S26) — Reliable and safe data engineering and data science agents
Alkera is a data engineering/analysis/science agent that works in your IDE or CLI. If you’re tired of agents that produce false, or even dangerous, reports about your data, then Alkera is for you.
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Alkera is a data engineering/analysis/science agent that works in your IDE or CLI. If you’re tired of agents that produce false, or even dangerous, reports about your data, then Alkera is for you. Our agent is equipped with your data’s history and lineage, your team’s knowledge, and tailored plugins for data apps such as Snowflake and dbt. Simply install and connect your services to begin doing trusted agentic data work. We also offer VPC & on-prem deployment options for when data can't leave your boundary.
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Alkera is a data engineering agent that works natively across your entire data stack — strict data governance, reasoning over exact column-level lineage, and a living knowledge base built from your team's work. Build new pipelines and migrate legacy ones to the modern data stack.
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Rick Gao
Founder/CEO
Founder at Alkera AI, Inc. Previously at Verition Fund Management where he built financial models and optimizations for treasury financing. Previous computational biology research at Yale's Gerstein Laboratory.
Tony Li
Founder/COO
Founder at Alkera AI, Inc. Previously Agentic Software Engineer at ByteDance, where he built a Python framework for multi-agent AI workflows and deployed production bots used across company teams. Former Quantitative Developer at Carthage Capital. BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Yale.
Andrew Tran
Founder/CTO
Founder at Alkera AI, Inc. Prev SWE intern at Ramp and HRT working closely with data teams. CS B.S/M.S from Yale. Prev ML research at Yale's Gerstein Lab developing biology reasoning models.
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