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Cortex Secures $2.5M In Funding From Sequoia -- New Reliability As Code Platform Provides Comprehensive Microservices Visibility And Control For Engineering And Sre Teams

May 18, 2021•about 4 years ago

Amount Raised

$2.5 Million

Round Type

seed

San Francisco

Description

Reliability as Code pioneer Cortex today announced that it has secured $2.5 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital. The new funds will accelerate development of the Cortex platform, which enables engineering leaders and site reliability engineers (SREs) to move beyond manual processes to gain visibility and control of rapidly expanding microservices. Bogomil Balkansky, a partner at Sequoia, joins the Cortex board of directors. Additional investors in the round include Y Combinator, Scott Belsky, CPO at Adobe; Gokul Rajaram, board member of Pinterest and Coinbase; Sam Lambert, CPO of PlanetScale; Manik Gupta, former CPO of Uber and Mathilde Collin, CEO and founder of Front.

Company Information

Company

Cortex

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Cortex is the leading Reliability as Code platform, designed to give engineers and SREs comprehensive microservices visibility and control. Cortex provides a single-pane-of-glass for visualization of service ownership, documentation and performance history, replacing “tribal knowledge” and spreadsheets. This gives engineering and SRE teams the visibility and control they need over their services, even as teams shift, people move, platforms change and microservices continue to grow. Cortex is a YCombinator Company backed by Sequoia Capital. For more information, visit www.getcortexapp.com or see us on Twitter at @GetCortexApp.