Cortex AI

Cortex AI

Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI

San Francisco
3 employees
AI
Seed · $6M

About Cortex AI

Cortex AI builds the world’s most diverse and large-scale real-world workplace robot & egocentric dataset — where the physical world becomes the next training and evaluation set for embodied AI.

We power frontier labs developing robotics foundation models and general-purpose robots by providing the data they need:
1️⃣ Egocentric Data — real-workplace human video with hand/body pose, depth, and subtask labels.
2️⃣ Robot Data — trajectories collected from manipulators and humanoids in real industry settings.
3️⃣ Human-in-the-Loop Rollouts & Evals — real-world deployments with remote operators who recover robots when they fail, capturing data that feeds back into training and continuously improves models.

Additionally, through the Cortex Marketplace, workplaces get paid to host data-collection and evaluation sessions, while labs access the in-the-wild data that truly matters. This draws on Lucas’s previous experience as co-founder of Carousell, a C2C marketplace that scaled to a $1B+ valuation.

Company details

Team Size3
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryAI

Funding

Total raised

$6M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
500 Global
MMultimodal Ventures
Pioneer Fund
Rebel Fund

Founders

Lucas Ngoo

Lucas Ngoo

Founder and CEO of Cortex AI. We're building the world's most diverse real-world, real-workplace, and industry-scale egocentric + robot dataset. Prior to Cortex AI, Lucas was the co-founder and CTO of Carousell (valued at $1B+).

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