Founded by former Algolia and Sorare engineers, the Paris-based startup is building a unified, AI-native data platform to replace the broken modern data stack.
Paris, France—June 25, 2025— Altertable, a new company on a mission to reinvent data infrastructure, announced today a €2.5 million seed round led by 20VC, with participation from Drysdale Ventures, Kima Ventures, and a group of high-profile angels including Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Romain Niccoli (Pigment), Kevin Niparko (Segment, Twilio), Nicolas Dessaigne (Algolia, YC), and Nicolas Julia (Sorare). The round will support team expansion, product development, and early design partnerships.
Built from the ground up to be AI-native, collaborative by default, and radically faster to insight, Altertable unifies data across the organization—eliminating silos, slashing complexity, and proactively delivering answers.
Altertable was founded in Paris in 2025 by Sylvain Utard, Kevin Granger, and Yannick Utard—engineers and product leaders who helped scale platforms like Exalead, Algolia and Sorare and experienced the limitations of today’s data tools from the inside.
- Sylvain Utard—employee #1 and former VP of Engineering at Algolia, previously at Exalead and most recently Head of Engineering at Sorare.
- Kevin Granger—early engineer at Algolia with deep expertise in developer tools, growth, and product infrastructure.
- Yannick Utard—scaled backend systems at Sorare, with a focus on performance, reliability, and platform architecture.
“We didn’t want to patch the broken data stack—we wanted to start fresh,” said Sylvain Utard, CEO of Altertable. “We’re building Altertable to be AI-native, collaborative by default, and radically faster to insight.”
Why Now? The Data Stack Is Broken
Today’s “modern” data stack has become an expensive patchwork of tools, pipelines, and glue code. It’s slow, siloed, and out of sync with how teams actually work:
- Engineers avoid dashboards.
- Analysts chase broken pipelines.
- Business teams wait days for answers.
- Most data remains untouched in warehouses.
Altertable flips this model: insights come before the questions. The platform monitors data in real time, models it once, and makes it accessible to everyone—from engineers to product, finance, and revenue teams.
“Proactivity is nonexistent today” said Sylvain Utard, “Most data sits asleep in a warehouse until someone asks the right question. Altertable flips that. We want insights to surface before you ask. We’re building a platform where insights work for people, not the other way around. If you’ve ever waited days to get an answer from your data, this is for you.”
What Altertable is building
Altertable is an AI-native, always-on insight engine—designed to unify your data and your teams in one place. It’s a new kind of platform where
- Insights surface proactively—without needing to be queried.
- Data is continuously monitored, modeled once, and reused everywhere.
- Engineers, analysts, and PMs work from a single shared canvas.
- Costs scale down—not up—with usage and growth.
Altertable is built from the ground up to reduce time-to-insight and infrastructure complexity. It’s designed not just for analysts and engineers but for revenue, finance, and product teams who need clarity, fast.
Backing from top entrepreneurs and operators
The round is led by 20VC, with participation from Drysdale Ventures, Kima Ventures and prominent angel investors who understand the scale of the opportunity.
“This is an A+ team, combining technical depth, execution experience, and a bold vision for what the future of data should look like. They’ve learned their craft in some of the best software companies in Europe, true schools of product and engineering excellence.” said Julien Codorniou, General Partner at 20VC.
Joining the round as angels:
- Olivier Pomel, CEO and co-founder at Datadog
- Romain Niccoli, co-founder of Pigment
- Nicolas Dessaigne, co-founder of Algolia and YC Partner
- Kevin Niparko, formerly head of product at Segment, Twilio
- Nicolas Julia, CEO and co-founder of Sorare
What’s next ?
Altertable is currently hiring its core team and working closely with early partners to shape the product. The company expects to open early access to pilot customers in late 2025.
About Altertable
Altertable is a Paris-based AI-native data platform founded in 2024 by Sylvain Utard, Kevin Granger, and Yannick Utard. Backed by 20VC, Drysdale Ventures, Kima Ventures and leading European tech angels, the company is rethinking the enterprise data stack from first principles—with a platform that brings clarity, collaboration, and continuous insight to modern teams.
Website: altertable.ai
About 20VC
20VC, founded by Harry Stebbings (The Twenty Minute VC), is a London-based venture firm operating at the intersection of capital and media. With over $500 million under management, 20VC backs early-stage startups across Europe and the U.S. Notable investments include Linear, Fyxer AI, Tripledot Studios, Lovable, Scoreplay, Deblock, and Delos.
Website: 20vc.com