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The Machine That Swallowed the Security Desk
Cortex began with a simple annoyance: every security tool could raise an alarm, but none could run the whole response. Palo Alto Networks turned that missing workflow into a bid to rebuild the security operations center around data, automation and machines that do the first shift.
Ambral
Ambral is a New York-based Y Combinator (S25) company building AI Account Managers for post-sale revenue teams. Its product, Cortex, synthesizes signals from product telemetry, support tickets, emails and calls into a live model of every customer account, then detects expansion and churn signals and drafts or executes the outreach - giving mid-market and SMB accounts the kind of attention normally reserved for a company's largest customers.
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform that lets organizations store, analyze, and share data across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud without managing infrastructure. Founded in 2012 by three former data architects, it separated compute from storage to make large-scale analytics elastic and pay-per-use. Now positioned as an 'AI Data Cloud,' the company adds managed AI services through Snowflake Cortex and governed agentic tools, serving more than 12,000 customers worldwide.