Cortical Ventures
Cortical Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Cambridge, MA investing in AI / ML, SaaS. The firm typically writes $400K–$2.0M checks and has 5 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $400K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 5 companies on record
- Partners
- 5 listed
- AUM
- $50M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- AI / ML, SaaS
- HQ
- Cambridge, MA
Last verified: 2026-05-06
Pre-Seed, Seed
$400K – $2.0M
$50M
5+ companies
5 partners
Investment Thesis
Focused on backing disruptive startups in the AI and enterprise software ecosystems.
How Cortical Ventures invests
Cortical Ventures is a vc firm based in Cambridge, MA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, SaaS.
Cortical Ventures typically writes checks of $400K–$2.0M per investment, backed by approximately $50M in assets under management.
Cortical Ventures has backed 5 companies in our records, including Baseten, Metropolis, Weaviate.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (5)
Other
Baseten
Metropolis
Weaviate
AngelQ
Alpha-Z
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $400K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Mike Obolonskyi, Principal.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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