# Cortex

> Cortex is the engineering operations platform - an internal developer portal that catalogs services, scores them against engineering standards, and pushes teams to act on what's broken. Born out of the chaos of Uber-scale microservices, it gives platform teams a single pane of glass over ownership, quality, and operational maturity.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Anish Dhar (Co-Founder & CEO), Ganesh Datta (Co-Founder & CTO), Nikhil Unni (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~110 employees
- **Products:** Catalog, Scorecards, Scaffolder, Plans / Initiatives, Eng Intelligence & AI
- **Notable:** Raised $112M+ total, including a $60M Series C in September 2024 at a $470M valuation., Helped define and popularize the Internal Developer Portal (IDP) category., Customers include Adobe, Grammarly, SoFi, Opendoor, StockX, Rappi.

## Products & services

- **Catalog** — A service and resource catalog with custom entity types, ownership, dependencies, and metadata pulled from across your toolchain.
- **Scorecards** — Customizable engineering standards that score services on production readiness, security, reliability, and developer experience.
- **Scaffolder** — Template-driven service creation that bakes in the org's standards from day zero.
- **Plans / Initiatives** — Migration and modernization tracking - assign work across teams and watch progress in real time.
- **Eng Intelligence & AI** — AI-powered search and insights across services, docs, and ownership data.

## Achievements

- Raised $112M+ total, including a $60M Series C in September 2024 at a $470M valuation.
- Helped define and popularize the Internal Developer Portal (IDP) category.
- Customers include Adobe, Grammarly, SoFi, Opendoor, StockX, Rappi.
- Y Combinator W20 alumnus.
- Featured at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe.

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Closed $60M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners at a $470M valuation.
- **2024-11** — Expanded platform with deeper AI-powered engineering intelligence.
- **2025** — Rebranded positioning from 'Internal Developer Portal' to 'Engineering Operations Platform.'

## Links

- Website: https://cortex.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cortexapp
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/GetCortexApp
- GitHub: https://github.com/cortexapps
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CortexApp

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Last updated: 2026-05-29