Alkera AI
Alkera AI is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 3.
About Alkera AI
Summary
Alkera AI builds an agentic platform for data engineering and data science that runs inside an IDE or CLI. It serves data teams who need to build, analyze, and maintain pipelines across tools like Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and BigQuery, replacing manual pipeline work and ad-hoc analysis with agents that carry column-level lineage, data history, and team knowledge. VPC and on-premises deployment options cover teams whose data cannot leave their environment.
Go-to-market
Data engineers and data scientists at enterprises adopt Alkera by installing it and connecting their existing stack, making it a self-serve entry point that can escalate to enterprise sales for teams with stricter data-residency requirements.
From the Y Combinator listing
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. 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.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 3
- Active
- Early
Founders (3)
- Andrew Tran
- Rick Gao
- Tony Li
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