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Cortex

Cortex is the Internal Developer Portal eliminating “developer tax”…

San Francisco

100 employees

Developer Tools

Series C · $112M

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About Cortex

Cortex is an internal developer portal built to accelerate the path to engineering excellence. Companies like Xero, Canva, and TripAdvisor use Cortex to catalog, score, and assign action to improve service quality and velocity, so devs can get back to work that drives the business forward.

Company details

Team Size100

LocationSan Francisco

IndustryDeveloper Tools

Funding

Total raised

$112M

StandoutYBacked by Y Combinator · P26

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Last stage

Series C

Investors

Sequoia Capital

IVP

Scale Venture Partners

Y Combinator

Tiger Global

Founders

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Nikhil Unni

Co-founder & Chief Architect at Cortex. Previously at Twilio. Studied at UC Berkeley.

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Anish Dhar

Co-founder & CEO of Cortex. Previously at Uber. Engineer with interests in real estate and edtech.

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Ganesh Datta

Co-founder & CTO of Cortex. Previously at LendUp. Studied Computer Science at UC San Diego.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.