Cortex

Cortex is the leading internal developer portal (IDP), helping companies catalog, score, and assign action to improve service quality and velocity, so developers can easily prioritize work that drives the business forward.

Developer tools and cloudY Combinator

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Cortex | 637 days from X account to first raise on record

@GetCortexApp·Raised $110M in 3 sourced rounds·1 signal before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

1. September 4, 2024
   Series B+ · $60M
   IIVP (lead)
   Source: cortex.io
2. May 31, 2023
   Series B+ · $35M
   IIVP (lead), CCraft Ventures, SSequoia, TTiger Global Management, YY Combinator
   Source: fundraisingfox.com
3. November 18, 2021
   Series A · $15M
   SSequoia (lead), TTiger Global Management (lead), JJack Altman, MMathilde Collin, PPeter McKay, RRafael Garcia, RRussell D'Sa, SShawn Burke, SSriram Krishnan, VVijay Nambiar
   Source: fundraisingfox.com
4. May 18, 2021
   Seed · amount undisclosed
   SSequoia (lead), AAdobe, BBogomil Balkansky, CCoinbase Ventures, GGokul Rajaram, MManik Gupta, MMathilde Collin, SSam Lambert, SScott Belsky, YY Combinator
   Source: finsmes.com
5. Winter 2020
   YY Combinator · batch
   Source: ycombinator.com
6. August 20, 2019
   X account created
7. April 2, 2012
   Website created

Founders and team

• AD
  Anish Dhar Cofounder & CEO

  LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• GD
  Ganesh Datta Founder

  LinkedIn
• NU
  Nikhil Unni Co-Founder & Chief Architect

  LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• AT
  Andrew Tribone Software Engineer
• EP
  Evan Pincus Head of Finance
• IE
  Ilya Elkind Principal Sales Engineer
• LC
  Lauren Craigie Head of Product Marketing
• MJ
  Meghan Jordan Principal Product Manager

Investors

• AAdobe
• AAlpha Square Group
• BBogomil Balkansky
• CCoinbase Ventures
• CCraft Ventures
• CCross Creek
• GGokul Rajaram
• IIVPlead investor
• JJack Altman
• JJohn Collison
• MManik Gupta
• MMathilde Collin
• PPatrick Collison
• PPeter McKay
• RRafael Garcia
• RRussell D'Sa
• SSam Lambert
• SSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
• SScale Venture Partners
• SScott Belsky
• SSequoialead investor
• SShawn Burke
• SSriram Krishnan
• SStripe
• TTiger Global Managementlead investor
• VVijay Nambiar
• WWorld Innovation Lab
• YY Combinatoraccelerator

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• BBaseten$1.5B Series B+ · Jun 2026

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