Cortex vs Framer
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Internal developer portal for service catalog and engineering ops. Founded 2019, SF (ex-Uber). $112M raised at $470M valuation. Y Combinator grad. Private.
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Cortex is an internal developer portal founded in 2019 by Anish Dhar (CEO, ex-Uber), Ganesh Datta, Nikhil Unni, and Aditya Subramanian, headquartered in San Francisco. Raised $112 million including a $60M growth round (August 2025) led by Scale Venture Partners at $470M valuation. YC graduate; investors include IVP, Sequoia, Tiger Global.
No-code website builder reaching $50M ARR in August 2025 at $2B valuation with 500K MAU; used by 40% of YC's latest batch and Perplexity competing with Webflow for design-quality sites.
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Framer is a professional no-code website builder and design tool used by marketing teams, startups, and design-led companies to create responsive, interactive websites without writing code — combining the visual fidelity of a design tool (Figma-like precision) with the publishing infrastructure of a CMS, enabling teams to go from design to live website without a separate development handoff. Founded in Amsterdam and backed by $161 million total funding including a $100 million Series D in August 2025 at a $2 billion valuation, Framer reached $50 million ARR in August 2025 (doubling from $25 million in 2024) with 500,000 monthly active users including Miro, Perplexity, Scale AI, and 40% of Y Combinator's latest batch.
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