Cortex

Early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies. They assembled a team of senior operators and investors with one goal: to help founders build great companies.

Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

IVP grows breakout companies into enduring market leaders.

They are engaged VC partners, but their guidance is focused on when and where it counts. It’s about expertise in moments that matter, answering your call as a counselor and confidant. It’s about bolstering the functions that make or break a business to ensure we make yours a success. It’s about being your compass on the winding path to market leadership. And about celebrating the milestones along the way.

While IVP's investment track record is four decades strong, their focus is on the horizon. From emerging to enduring market leadership, they look out so you can look ahead. Undaunted.

Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.

Logical domains are cloud infrastructure, developer tools, DevOps, open source, observability as well as SaaS apps for sales and marketing. In terms of specific companies and entrepreneurs, he is looking for the same things I did when I was running large teams and hiring people: iconoclastic thinking, the courage to break paradigms, defiance of common wisdom.

Sriram invests in early-stage consumer startups. Prior to joining a16z, Sriram held numerous senior product roles. Most recently, he led core consumer teams at Twitter where he was responsible for products including the home timeline, new user experience, search, discovery, and audience growth. Before this, Sriram created and oversaw various mobile ad products for both Snap and Facebook, including Snap’s Direct Response ads business and the Facebook Audience Network, one of the largest networks in display advertising.  Sriram writes actively at @sriramk on Twitter and at sriramk.com. Along with his wife, he also co-hosts The Good Time Show on Clubhouse, a nightly show through which they interview innovators around tech and culture. 

Jack is a partner at Alt Capital. Prior to being part of Alt Capital, he was a co-founder and CEO of Lattice, a people success platform that help business leaders develop engaged, high-performing employees. He was also an angel investor to companies like Sora, ScienceIO, Rewatch, Product Hunt, Prelude, Command AI, etc.

Led investments in private cloud software companies across stages. He also has a $10 billion public software portfolio.

Cack started their career as a runner for Nike, competing on a global level for two years. As any athlete knows, If you’re targeted in training and tenacious enough to persevere, it translates on race day. In sport and in company-building, there’s no substitute for putting in the time and effort—no shortcut to success.

They think of being a partner to founders and execs in the same way that they think about being on a sports team: we all have one another’s best interests in mind, and we’re united through a shared understanding and a common goal. Both inside the walls of the firm and beyond them.

Cack works with companies developing underlying infrastructures for autonomous and business applications and consumer experiences.