Founded in 2019, Cortex offers an internal developer platform that acts as a centralized information hub to help engineering teams catalog services, track ownership, and access operational status and resource allocation. The platform scores and assesses services against minimum requirements and provides prescriptive, actionable recommendations to drive continuous improvement. Cortex automates routine tasks like ownership tracking and setup by syncing with identity providers and incident management tools, and provides predefined “golden paths” to reduce setup time for new software. It centralizes service catalogs, compliance metrics and resource information to increase visibility and developer productivity. Notable customers include Adobe, Grammarly and Opendoor. Cortex plans to use new funding to grow developer awareness and further platform capabilities with enhanced workflows, engineering intelligence and artificial intelligence. Cortex provides an internal developer portal that catalogs a company's services and resources and offers scorecards for production readiness and development quality. The product includes team hubs to clarify ownership and collaboration, plus a scaffolding service to standardize service architecture and create repeatable onboarding processes. The company started as a tool to help developers manage microservices and has broadened its focus to be an opinionated, action-oriented portal for engineering organizations. Cortex reports revenue growth of 400% year-over-year and lists customers such as TripAdvisor, Docker, Grammarly, Unity and SoFi. Founders Anish Dhar (CEO) and Ganesh Datta (CTO) say the team is focused on expanding in-portal tools so developers can take more actions and manage more of their ecosystem from the portal. The product is pitched as enabling culture change around service ownership, reliability and engineering standards. Cortex builds a services catalog and visibility platform that helps engineering teams track, standardize and improve microservices across organizations. Its core product is a services catalog and Cortex Query Language (CQL) that ingests data from about 30 tools, including GitHub, Bitbucket, Datadog, GitLab, Jira, SignalFX and Kubernetes, to surface service status and production-readiness. Teams can define production-readiness checklists (dashboards, alerting, on-call rotations) and measure compliance and service quality. The company recently launched a Service Creation tool to scaffold new services from templates, plus new teams features to improve cross-team collaboration and onboarding. Customers include Grammarly, 8x8 and Rappi, and Cortex reports 10x customer growth since its May 2021 launch. Financially, the company announced a $15 million Series A led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital; Sequoia also led its $2.5 million seed round. Cortex builds software that automatically creates and maintains a catalog of the services development teams use by integrating with tools like Jira and DataDog. The product ingests service metadata and ownership to reduce manual tracking and improve incident response and engineering velocity. Cortex recently launched Scorecards to enforce service best practices and introduced Cortex Query Language (CQL) to let teams express service rules as mathematical expressions. The company was founded in October 2019, launched its product in March 2020, and participated in Y Combinator. Today the team is small (about five employees) and is remote-first with the possibility of a small San Francisco office; it plans to hire 10–15 employees before the end of 2021. The company has secured seed funding to support product development, hiring, and go-to-market efforts.

Total raised

$112M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Sep 2024