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Igor Taber

General Partner at Cortical Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Igor Taber is the Founder and General Partner at Cortical Ventures in San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in funding and incubating next AI leaders. With a track record of investing in notable companies like Paxata and GoodData, Taber's expertise in venture capital and strategic partnerships has made him a prominent figure in the tech investment landscape. Taber's career highlights include leading Cortical Ventures to invest in a range of successful companies at various stages, such as Integration.app and BlueData Software, showcasing his ability to identify and support promising startups in the AI and data services sectors. Additionally, his role as a Board Member at Weaviate and investor in multiple tech companies like OthersideAI and DataRobot underscores his strong network and influence within the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Work Experience 

  • Founder and General Partner

    2021 - Current

Cortical Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on investing in AI companies.

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor

    2022

AICrete is the only recipe-as-a-service platform optimizing local materials for cleaner and more cost-efficient concrete.

Raised $8,800,000.00 from Pulse Fund, Clear Ventures, Cortical Ventures, VoLo Earth Ventures and Page One Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021

HOS is an AI technology company that develops scalable technologies to achieve significant and constructive changes in the world.

Raised $12,800,000.00 from Critical Ventures, Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, B5 Capital and IA Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021

Neo Cybernetica develops cybernetics technology to improve the capability of artificially intelligent systems.

Raised $30,000,000.00 from B5 Capital, West Coast Equity Partners, Cortical Ventures, Open Field Capital and New Enterprise Associates.

  • Investor

    2021

Generative Media Platform for Developers

Raised $23,000,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Julien Chaumond, Kindred Ventures, Aravind Srinivas and Guillermo Rauch.

  • Investor

    2015

    Led Series B investment into the company

  • SVP Of Corporate Development, Partnerships and Strategy

    2018 - 2021

    As a Corporate Development Leader, I am leading partnerships, acquisitions, corporate development, and growth strategy at DataRobot - one of the fastest-growing Enterprise Machine Learning/AI companies. -Raised >$500M in growth capital from top tier growth investors (Altimeter, Tiger Global, Blackrock, TRowe Price, Sapphire, NEA and others) -Executed multiple strategic acquisitions: Paxata, ParallelM, Cursor, Zeff, and others -Managed Strategic Partnerships with likes of Snowflake, Tableau, Automation Anywhere, UIPath and others

DataRobot provides AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.

Raised $1,050,598,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, Page One Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, Altimeter Capital, ServiceNow Ventures, Counterpoint Global, Franklin Templeton, Tiger Global Management and J17 Capital.

  • Seed Investor

    2020

    Founded by creators of Dask, Coiled products ensure that data infrastructure scales at maximum speed, minimum cost, and with the Python tools data scientists already use. Coiled makes it easy for teams and organizations to collaborate and ensures reproducibility with data of any size and simplifies working in the cloud. Coiled’s team has helped scale data work from workstations and laptops to compute clusters and GPUs using Dask. These Dask projects range from machine learning and ETL pipelines to demand forecasting and statistical modeling—for Barclays, Capital One, Harvard Medical School, Los Alamos National Labs, Novartis, USGS, Walmart, Grubhub, and more.

Coiled is a modern solution for seamlessly scaling data science, machine learning, and AI in Python.

Raised $26,000,000.00 from Costanoa Ventures, IA Ventures, FirstMark and Bessemer Venture Partners.

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