USA – Cortex, a San Francisco, CA-based reliability as code company, secured $2.5m in seed funding.
The round was led by Sequoia Capital with participation from 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. In conjunction with the funding, Bogomil Balkansky, a partner at Sequoia, joins the Cortex board of directors.The company intends to use the funds to accelerate development of platform.Led by Anish Dhar, CEO and co-founder, Cortex provides a platform which enables engineering leaders and site reliability engineers (SREs) to move beyond manual processes to gain visibility and control of microservices. The system features an automatic onboarding workflow that scans all potential microservices sources, discovers the microservices, maps metadata to them and infers critical information such as ownership and on-call rotations. The platform then generates a dashboard illustrating relevant metrics for each of more than 30 third-party tools, including Datadog, Sonarqube, Snyk and PagerDuty. These integrations let engineers quickly access on-call rotations, latency dashboards, open vulnerabilities and more in one searchable dashboard. Each integration includes individual rules that enable users to drill down into specific metrics to grade the quality of their services via customizable “scorecards.” This enables development of production readiness checklists, security audits and evaluations of operation and development maturity.18/05/2021
