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Cortex AI

Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI

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Batch
F25
Status, per YC
Active
Team size
3
HQ
San Francisco, CA
In F25146 companies, 89% AI

Founders

  • Lucas NgooFounder/CEO

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About Cortex AI

Cortex AI builds the world’s most diverse and large-scale real-world workplace robot & egocentric dataset — where the physical world becomes the next training and evaluation set for embodied AI. We power frontier labs developing robotics foundation models and general-purpose robots by providing the data they need: 1️⃣ Egocentric Data — real-workplace human video with hand/body pose, depth, and subtask labels. 2️⃣ Robot Data — trajectories collected from manipulators and humanoids in real industry settings. 3️⃣ Human-in-the-Loop Rollouts & Evals — real-world deployments with remote operators who recover robots when they fail, capturing data that feeds back into training and continuously improves models. Additionally, through the Cortex Marketplace, workplaces get paid to host data-collection and evaluation sessions, while labs access the in-the-wild data that truly matters. This draws on Lucas’s previous experience as co-founder of Carousell, a C2C marketplace that scaled to a $1B+ valuation.

San Francisco, CA, USA

Cortex AI: questions

Which YC batch was Cortex AI in?

Cortex AI was in Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch (F25).

Is Cortex AI still active?

Y Combinator lists Cortex AI as active.

Who founded Cortex AI?

Cortex AI's founders, as listed on its YC page: Lucas Ngoo (Founder/CEO).

Where is Cortex AI based?

Cortex AI lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.

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