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PR & Analyst Relations2021–2023

Cortex

Mindshare launched Cortex from stealth and defined the "Reliability as Code" category for internal developer portals. Coverage in TechCrunch, DevOps.com, and Venture Capital Journal helped take a YC-backed startup from a $2.5M Sequoia-led seed to a $15M Series A in roughly six months.

$2.5M → $15M
Seed (May) to Series A (Nov 2021)
Stealth launch
'Reliability as Code' category debut
EMA validation
Analyst report and briefings
Tier-1 + trade
Funding and launch coverage
The challenge
  • ›A brand-new 'Reliability as Code' category with no existing awareness
  • ›Microservices sprawl was a real pain, but unnamed for buyers and media
  • ›Young YC startup in a noisy DevOps / SRE tooling market
  • ›Needed credibility with engineering leaders, SREs and analysts before enterprise adoption
Mindshare approach
  • ›Launched Cortex from stealth around the 'Reliability as Code' narrative
  • ›Drove funding milestones — Sequoia-led seed and $15M Series A — into Tier-1 media
  • ›Built customer evidence (Namely, Clever) and analyst validation (EMA)
  • ›Ran speaker, thought-leadership and content programs for CEO Anish Dhar
Results
  • 01Series A coverage landed in TechCrunch, DevOps.com, Venture Capital Journal and SD Times
  • 02'Reliability as Code' became Cortex's owned category, backed by analyst validation
  • 03Customer evidence program produced reference stories for sales and press
  • 04Sustained media momentum and executive visibility through 2023
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PR & Analyst Relations2024–2026
Buildkite

Buildkite was a capable player in a CI/CD market dominated by GitLab, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins. Mindshare helped create and own a new category, the "Agentic SDLC," positioning Buildkite's Scale-Out Delivery Platform with customer proof from Reddit (builds up to 2× faster, queue times down to ~5 seconds) and sustained analyst engagement. The narrative landed ahead of GitLab, GitHub, and Dagger.

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PR & Analyst Relations2025–current
CodeRabbit

As AI-generated code floods engineering teams, review has become the bottleneck. Mindshare is building CodeRabbit's authority on AI code quality through proprietary research (13.9M PRs analyzed for the Weekend Engineering Report, a 470-PR study showing 1.7× more issues caught) and earned media across The New Stack, DevOps.com, and Reddit. Customer proof from Showpad: 65% less review workload, 46% faster cycle time.

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