Nishkarsh Srivastava
Co-founder & CEO
Founder Bay Area
Background
- London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- Stanford — worked on research project that inspired Cortex
- Realized the need for a vector database that digests context from different applications at scale
Investment Focus
Not an investor — founder/operator.
AI Agent Relevance
- Cortex is directly building the "memory layer" for AI agents — core infrastructure
- Vector database + application context understanding is exactly what AI agents need
- If your AI agent needs to pull context from Gmail, Slack, Notion, etc. — Cortex is a potential integration
- Peer founder building complementary AI agent infrastructure