Misha O.

Principal @ Cortical Ventures

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Lead Preseed investor
2025
Currently in stealth mode, big updates coming soon 👀
Lead Preseed Investor
2025
The first-party generation platform for entertainment leaders. We develop generative image and video solutions for organizations with high value imagery across entertainment, sports, and marketing.
Lead Preseed Investor
2023
Want a hand? Wait list is here! https://airtable.com/appbuPsRZGM5IYJuz/pag3tQl0Z0zzSHyBm/form Kyber Labs is building robotic manipulation platforms that expand what automation can achieve, starting with the high mix, low volume work that has resisted traditional automation. We believe the true value of humanoid robots lies in their hands and what they can do in the world. Whether fixed at a workstation, on a rail, wheels, or legs, dexterous manipulation is a key unlock for general purpose robotics. At the core of our platform are hands designed from the ground up for embodied AI. Mechanical compliance and full backdrivability make interactions safe and adaptable, while super low cost makes large scale data collection practical. Even for seemingly simpler tasks, we intentionally apply general purpose hardware because solving them this way ensures the system is future-proof, data rich, and ready to scale into far more complex applications tomorrow. Our Focus: ● Stepwise path: Starting with targeted industrial problems in manufacturing and assembly, and steadily working up to broader general purpose capabilities. ● Manipulation-first design: Robust, low cost hands with torque control, tactile sensing, and high mechanical compliance to conform naturally to objects. ● Ecosystem building: We can’t build general-purpose robots alone, so we’re partnering with researchers and innovators to provide accessible hardware and tools to accelerate AI driven manipulation.
Board Observer, Series A Co-lead Investor
2021
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.
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2025
Lead Preseed investor
2025
Currently in stealth mode, big updates coming soon 👀
Lead Preseed Investor
2025
The first-party generation platform for entertainment leaders. We develop generative image and video solutions for organizations with high value imagery across entertainment, sports, and marketing.
2023
Lead Preseed Investor
2023
Want a hand? Wait list is here! https://airtable.com/appbuPsRZGM5IYJuz/pag3tQl0Z0zzSHyBm/form Kyber Labs is building robotic manipulation platforms that expand what automation can achieve, starting with the high mix, low volume work that has resisted traditional automation. We believe the true value of humanoid robots lies in their hands and what they can do in the world. Whether fixed at a workstation, on a rail, wheels, or legs, dexterous manipulation is a key unlock for general purpose robotics. At the core of our platform are hands designed from the ground up for embodied AI. Mechanical compliance and full backdrivability make interactions safe and adaptable, while super low cost makes large scale data collection practical. Even for seemingly simpler tasks, we intentionally apply general purpose hardware because solving them this way ensures the system is future-proof, data rich, and ready to scale into far more complex applications tomorrow. Our Focus: ● Stepwise path: Starting with targeted industrial problems in manufacturing and assembly, and steadily working up to broader general purpose capabilities. ● Manipulation-first design: Robust, low cost hands with torque control, tactile sensing, and high mechanical compliance to conform naturally to objects. ● Ecosystem building: We can’t build general-purpose robots alone, so we’re partnering with researchers and innovators to provide accessible hardware and tools to accelerate AI driven manipulation.
2021
Principal
2021
We are Operators with deep experience and knowledge of AI/ML and Data technologies. We bring depth and credible advice to every aspect of company building. Creating a company is not theoretical for us – we learned by building, by failing, and by succeeding. We partner from ideation to growth. We lead or co-lead pre-seed to Series A investments. We also partner with top engineering talent to incubate or co-create companies. Our focus is to work with AI innovators. We invest in companies that develop products and technologies that will fundamentally advance the field of AI and empower superior data-driven decisions that enhance people’s lives, businesses, and the world.
Board Observer, Series A Co-lead Investor
2021
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.
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