Two Palantir fighters just went private with $30 million and Sequoia’s legal stamp

EdraA startup from New York that claims to help companies manage operations by turning their existing data into live information, just took the most reliable vote: $ 30 million Series A led by Sequoia, with participation from 8VC and A *, an investment company founded by Kevin Hartz.

Founders are worth listening to. Eugen Alpeza and Yannis Karamanlakis say that they met at university 13 years ago and spent years before Palantir went independent – Alpeza built major business cases and led the launch of Palantir’s AI Platform; Karamanlakis as the company’s First Forward Deployed AI Engineer, focused on taking AI models out of demos and into reality.

The problem they are dealing with is straightforward. Companies are sitting on a lot of important work information – emails, logs, support tickets, chat history – but don’t have a good way to do it. Edra says it analyzes the data itself, creates insights from it, and keeps it updated. Current use cases are related to IT service management and customer support. Clients already include HubSpot, ASOS, Cushman & Wakefield, and EasyJet.