CA-based Cortex, the Internal Developer Portal eliminating “developer tax” with paved paths to production has raised $60 million in series C funding round, led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from World Innovation Labs, Cross Creek, Alpha Square Group, Patrick and John Collison (Stripe) IVP, Sequoia, and Y Combinator.
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With this new infusion of capital, Cortex is looking to further grow developer awareness around IDPs and invest in platform capabilities with enhanced workflows, engineering intelligence, user interface, and of course, AI.
Cortex is an Internal Developer Portal designed to get developers out of a cycle of “finding, fixing, and waiting” by making it incredibly easy to gain context about software state and standards, and act autonomously to move any initiative forward—whether that’s migrating to the cloud, building new platform experiences, improving security posture, or anything else critical to the business. We’re redefining what it means to support developer experience—starting with access to the right information, at the right time.
Early adopters of Cortex like Adobe, Grammarly, and Opendoor have shown us the potential for IDPs well beyond an engineering system of record, or vehicle for developer self-service. Each, like many other customers, rely on Cortex to catalog services, resources, domains, APIs, ML models, and more, before applying continuous monitoring for standards like ongoing code coverage, vulnerability SLAs, package freshness, and language-specific best practices.
“We’re investing in Cortex because it’s solving two mission-critical issues for engineering teams: centralizing the information needed to understand, operate, and build new software, and creating a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement. The world’s largest enterprises are betting on Cortex to drive the future of their developer experience, and we’re looking forward to seeing what Anish, Ganesh and the Cortex team do next.”
About Cortex
Founded in 2019, Cortex is an internal developer portal built to accelerate the path to engineering excellence. Companies like Docker, TripAdvisor, and Confluent use Cortex to automatically catalog, continuously assess, and confidently deploy high quality software.
