Misha Obolonskyi
Principal at Cortical Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2021 - Current
Focus: - Robotics (biomimetic actuation, perception, sense of touch) - Generative world models - Generative Simulation - Embodied AI - Human-computer interfaces - AI-native stack (LLMs, Generative AI for workflows augmentations, RAG/VectorDBs for semantic retrieval etc) - All things AI and Data infrastructure Current investments: NeoCybernetica, hos, immerok (acq by Confluent), dataroomhq, AICrete, fal.ai, Integration.app, Weaviate, Rupert, Otherside.ai (Hyperwrite), Angel AI, Stealth in AI Robotics, Stealth in Generative Video Automating VC-fund backend
Cortical Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on investing in AI companies.
Board Observer, Series A Co-lead Investor
2021
Weaviate develops an open-source vector database to power AI-native applications.
Lead Seed Investor
2023
Lead Seed Investor
2023
Enabling unprecedented dexterity and mm-level precision of robotics hands
Advisor and Investor
2020
Working with companies (public/private/stealth) and venture capital funds across end-to-end data to value chain with deep dives in almost every market segment: - Data integration (ETL/ELT, iPaaS, ESB, data quality tools etc.) - Storage (OLTP, OLAP, NoSQL, datalakes/lakehouses) - Business intelligence tools - Data Science and Machine learning platforms (AutoML, drag-n-drop, low-code/no-code, notebook-based tools) - MLOps (pipelines, feature stores, inference, ML observability / governance / explainability) Feel free to DM me should you have any questions.
VP of Strategy and Business Development
2021 - 2021
OnSpecta is a developer of virtualization and AI inference technology for deep learning frameworks ( e.g. TensorFlow, Caffe or Pytorch) that delivers the best inference performance and simple deployment on any hardware (CPUs, GPUs, or cluster) in the cloud or the edge. OnSpecta has been acquired by Ampere Computing to strengthen AI Inference offering!
OnSpecta provides deep learning acceleration and deployment automation software.
Corporate Development
2020 - 2020
DataRobot is a developer of AutoML platform with a vision to build end-to-end data-to-value platform. Company combines a trusted enterprise AI platform and a trusted AI-native strategic partnership for global enterprises that want to harness the power of AI and their existing teams to succeed in today's Intelligence Revolution. DataRobot is one of the leaders in Forbes AI 50: America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence companies. As a part of Corporate Development team, I was working on several streams: - Strategy and M&A: analyzed and constantly tracked numerous players in every market segment of Data and AI chain (data connectors, data prep, feature engineering, modeling and AutoML, MLOps) - Competitive intelligence: analyzed business performance and product development of the main players in data science and machine learning platforms market - GTM/Product: assessment of self-service, open source, bottom-up approaches and best practices to build Sales, Marketing, and GTM operations.
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.
MBA
2018 - 2019