Category Visionaries

Anish Dhar and Ganesh Datta, Co-Founders of Cortex: Over $52 Million Raised to Improve Developer Productivity

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Anish Dhar and Ganesh Datta, Co-Founders of Cortex, an internal developer portal that's raised over $52 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Anish and Ganesh’s backgrounds as engineers working at different companies which had the same problem, and the origin story of Cortex Microservice going wrong, and how Cortex helps development companies keep track of who owns each service and whether they are following best practices Why Anish and Ganesh are certain that cold-calling is not dead, and how they learned to market their product How to ensure you keep domination within your category, and why it’s important to ensure you’re building the right thing at the right moment Why storytelling is crucial skill in fundraising, and how you can acquire over time

Broadcast on:: 02 Jan 2024

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Anish Dhar and Ganesh Datta, Co-Founders of Cortex, an internal developer portal that's raised over $52 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed:

Anish and Ganesh’s backgrounds as engineers working at different companies which had the same problem, and the origin story of Cortex
Microservice going wrong, and how Cortex helps development companies keep track of who owns each service and whether they are following best practices
Why Anish and Ganesh are certain that cold-calling is not dead, and how they learned to market their product
How to ensure you keep domination within your category, and why it’s important to ensure you’re building the right thing at the right moment
Why storytelling is crucial skill in fundraising, and how you can acquire over time