Igor Taber brings an unusual VC-to-operator-to-VC perspective to AI investing, having spent years at Intel Capital before becoming SVP of Corporate Development at DataRobot where he helped raise over $500M and run acquisitions, then founding Cortical Ventures. Rather than just backing existing startups, he focuses on inventing and incubating AI companies from scratch while running his fund on a proprietary AI platform designed to reinvent how VC firms operate internally.
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Cortical Ventures
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AI, Enterprise, SaaS, Deeptech / Hardware, Devtools
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Pre-Seed - Series A
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$500K - $2M
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Cortical Ventures is led by DataRobot founder Jeremy Achin and Intel Capital MD Igor Taber, who built a $6B+ AI company before starting their fund and use a proprietary AI platform to reinvent how venture capital operates. The fund focuses on three specific AI areas—Physical AI, AI Production Gap, and AI for Good—while also inventing and incubating AI companies from scratch, positioning itself as "AI builders and practitioners, not tourists" with deep hands-on deployment experience across multiple AI cycles.
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