Clueless-style AI closet app Alta raises $20M Series A led by Forerunner
eurie_kim · x · 2026-10-23
- Investor euriekim announced Forerunner led a $20 million Series A in Alta, the AI fashion app founded by Jenny Wang, billed as the closest realization yet of the famous 'Clueless closet' vision.
- Alta users have collectively spent 56,000+ hours (six years) watching the loading animation while their personal avatars render; the poster is a 153-day power user.
- Per Fortune, improved AI models are finally making decades-old virtual styling dreams viable, and Alta aims to power AI across the fashion industry.
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