Inside BioStack's $9.5M Seed Round: Building a Global Clinical Data Layer
Dr. Dereck Mush, MD, MBA
What they do
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.
People in this update
- Akash KapoorFounder and CEOSource
The record
- Vertical
- Developer & Data Infrastructure
- Sub-segment
- Healthcare AI evaluation
- Product type
- Platform software
- Stage
- Seed
- Headquarters
- Not disclosed
- Region
- Founded
- Not disclosed
- Total funding
- $12.5M raised
Notable investors: Oak HC/FT.
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