Edra raised $30 million from Sequoia Capital to solve what its ex-Palantir founders call “the hardest part of automation” — not the AI itself, but capturing the institutional knowledge that lives in people’s heads rather than documentation.

The Series A, which also includes participation from 8VC and A* (Kevin Hartz’s fund), validates a fundamental infrastructure challenge: enterprises are drowning in operational data but lack the means to transform it into actionable intelligence for AI agents.