# Cortical Ventures (slim)

> Cortical Ventures's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Weaviate, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cortical-ventures/index.md (~500 tokens) · this version ~380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cortical-ventures/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cortical-ventures/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28
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Venture firm.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Weaviate**, Series B, April 2023
  - [Weaviate API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.md), graded B, 68.1/100
  - Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/weaviate-raises-50-million-series-b-funding-to-meet-soaring-demand-for-ai-native-vector-database-technology-301803296.html

## Where they invest

- Retrieval & vector search, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Bob van Luijt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bob-van-luijt/), Weaviate
- [Etienne Dilocker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/etienne-dilocker/), Weaviate

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Cortical Ventures invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Weaviate backed by Cortical Ventures.

### How are Cortical Ventures's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Weaviate API + MCP (B, 68.1).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.