Igor Taber

Founder and General Partner at Cortical Ventures - funding and incubating next AI leaders

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 32 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Jun 2022
We create technology to help the world work more effectively. Weve built AI writing and communication tools used by millions of individuals around the world. Now, were focused on Personal Assistant, the worlds first AI agent that can operate your browser. Its like self-driving mode for your work online.
Investor
May 2022
Immerok, a leading contributor to Apache Flink®, is now a part of Confluent. Follow Confluent for updates on how we’re working together to build a cloud-native fully managed Apache Flink® service that delivers the same simplicity, security and scalability that you expect from Confluent for Kafka. Confluent is the data streaming platform that is pioneering a new category of data infrastructure to set data in motion
Investor
Apr 2022
Changing availability and variability of concrete raw materials as well as environmental conditions lead to inconsistencies in performance and appearance resulting in extra production costs and customer dissatisfaction. Further, roughly 8% of carbon emissions in the world comes from Portland cement production alone. The needs of the concrete industry today require us to innovate and optimize concrete mixtures for the future. This is why AICrete Corp. came into being to focus on combining data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with robotics to optimize, discover, and develop more cost-effective, durable, and sustainable concrete mixtures that meet expectations.
Board Member
2022
Weaviate is a cloud-native, real-time vector database that allows you to bring your machine-learning models to scale. There are extensions for specific use cases, such as semantic search, plugins to integrate Weaviate in any application of your choice, and a console to visualize your data.
Investor
Sep 2021
hOS is an early-stage AI technology company founded in 2021 by several DataRobot alumni and former executives, including its founder Jeremy Achin. The company is operating in stealth-mode developing scalable technologies that will make significant positive change in the world. We're assembling a world-class team, and are fortunate to have the backing and confidence of some of the tech world's most notable investors. Visit our website to learn more and view current job openings.
Investor
Sep 2021
Over the last decade, we have witnessed numerous breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence, simulation, robotics, and other related fields. At Neo Cybernetica, we are leveraging these recent breakthroughs to create novel cybernetics technology to push the boundaries of what artificially intelligent systems are capable of achieving both autonomously and in collaboration with humans. We will remain in stealth mode until our technology grows sufficiently advanced, but we are already supported by world-class investors and are building an interdisciplinary team of people excited to make technological breakthroughs at the very edge of human knowledge.
Investor
Sep 2021
fal is a generative media platform that provides developers with access to the worlds best generative image, video, and audio models through a unified API. Trusted by over 2.5 million developers and leading companies, fal offers the fastest inference engine for diffusion models, on-demand serverless GPUs, and dedicated compute clusters for frontier research.
Seed Investor
2021
Cerbos is an enterprise authorization solution built to secure access across complex, distributed environments, SaaS products, and regulated systems. It externalizes authorization logic from application code, making access control consistent and centrally managed across all services, saving months of dev time while ensuring compliance and security.
Angel Investor
2020
The Portal26 Enterprise GenAI adoption platform is an essential infrastructure for enterprises to successfully manage, monitor, and measure their GenAI program. Our customers gain rich visibility into usage while mitigating risks associated with compliance, IP, and privacy. Portal26 uniquely supports audits and detailed rear-view forensics, a critical gap in enterprise AI infrastructure. Additionally, Portal26 supports employee education through usage-based policy distribution and learning materials. Boards and business leaders rely on Portal26 to understand how GenAI impacts their organizations; IT and security teams leverage robust security and forensics controls; compliance, risk and legal teams also rely on Portal26 to provide critical reporting and audit functionality. To learn more, go to Portal26.ai.
Seed Investor
2020
Lightweight cloud compute platform for Python people. Built for data engineers and scientists. Obsessively crafted for developer experience.
Angel Investor, Advisor
Jan 2019
Group for co-founders of several start-ups.
Seed Investor
2019
Everything you need to pay your people, your payroll taxes and your workers comp insurance made easy as pie.
Angel Investor, Advisor
2017
Group for co-founders of several start-ups.
Investor and Board Member
Nov 2016
Paxata, a DataRobot company, is the pioneer of self-service data preparation and leading data fabric provider that transforms data into information to empower every person, process, and system in an organization to be more intelligent. Its Adaptive Information Platform provides business leaders and analysts with an enterprise-grade, self-service data preparation application to deliver better customer experiences, improve operational efficiencies, and comply with regulatory requirements. Built on Apache SparkTM and optimized to run in hybrid, multi-cloud environments, Paxata leverages algorithmic intelligence and distributed computing to deliver an immersive business consumer experience that accelerates and automates the data-to-insight pipeline. DataRobot is the leader in enterprise AI. Together, we’re building the industry’s first end-to-end platform for enterprise AI to maximize business value by delivering AI at scale and continuously optimizing performance over time. DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models. As enterprises move to a multi-cloud, hybrid world, it’s imperative an underlying data fabric that combines enterprise scale, security, and governance is a core part of the enterprise AI infrastructure. Combining AI-enabled data prep from Paxata with enterprise AI capabilities from DataRobot will supercharge your ability to transform data and deliver better outcomes all within one platform. Paxata has offices in Redwood City, New York, Ohio, and Texas. Visit www.paxata.com or engage on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube.
Investor and Board Observer
May 2016
Typesafe has changed its name to Lightbend. Please visit our new Linkedin Page to stay up to date on company news and events: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/7789814 www.Lightbend.com
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2022
Investor
Jun 2022
We create technology to help the world work more effectively. Weve built AI writing and communication tools used by millions of individuals around the world. Now, were focused on Personal Assistant, the worlds first AI agent that can operate your browser. Its like self-driving mode for your work online.
Investor
May 2022
Immerok, a leading contributor to Apache Flink®, is now a part of Confluent. Follow Confluent for updates on how we’re working together to build a cloud-native fully managed Apache Flink® service that delivers the same simplicity, security and scalability that you expect from Confluent for Kafka. Confluent is the data streaming platform that is pioneering a new category of data infrastructure to set data in motion
Investor
Apr 2022
Changing availability and variability of concrete raw materials as well as environmental conditions lead to inconsistencies in performance and appearance resulting in extra production costs and customer dissatisfaction. Further, roughly 8% of carbon emissions in the world comes from Portland cement production alone. The needs of the concrete industry today require us to innovate and optimize concrete mixtures for the future. This is why AICrete Corp. came into being to focus on combining data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with robotics to optimize, discover, and develop more cost-effective, durable, and sustainable concrete mixtures that meet expectations.
Board Member
2022
Weaviate is a cloud-native, real-time vector database that allows you to bring your machine-learning models to scale. There are extensions for specific use cases, such as semantic search, plugins to integrate Weaviate in any application of your choice, and a console to visualize your data.
2021
Investor
Sep 2021
hOS is an early-stage AI technology company founded in 2021 by several DataRobot alumni and former executives, including its founder Jeremy Achin. The company is operating in stealth-mode developing scalable technologies that will make significant positive change in the world. We're assembling a world-class team, and are fortunate to have the backing and confidence of some of the tech world's most notable investors. Visit our website to learn more and view current job openings.
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