Why follow Akash
Akash Kapoor is Founder and CEO at Alterra Labs. Oak HC/FT announced that it led Alterra Labs' $12.5 million seed round on November 10, 2026. Alterra builds healthcare-specific training and evaluation for AI, grounded in clinical and scientific practice. Founder and CEO Akash Kapoor started the company while training as a medical student at Columbia University, after machine learning research at the National Institutes of Health. Its clinical fellowship program brings specialist knowledge into evaluating and improving healthcare AI.
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