With a background in neuroscience and biological research, Karina guided Cortica’s original research on the computational function of the cortical neural network. Karina helped transition this research into the software that is the foundation of Cortica’s technology. Prior to co-founding Cortica, Karina was chief operating officer and product manager of real-time voice recognition company Liquid Comp Bit (LCB). Before that, she was a software engineer at Zoran Corporation. Karina holds a B.A. in biology from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Prior to this, she served in the elite 8200 intelligence unit of the Israeli Defense Force where she was introduced to advanced areas of signal processing and big data analytics.

About the company

Cortica is a technology company developing AI capable of learning and reacting on its own. Cortica is the first AI company capable of human-level image understanding. Even the most advanced technology has never been able to understand the visual world as well as people do - until now. By leveraging proprietary brain research to create unsupervised AI, Cortica has developed the most effective computer vision system. This technology, based upon the mammal cortex is utilized to build products impacting many industries. The company’s mission is to lead the emerging AI market with a strong focus on computer vision and establish its « universal visual index of the world » as the global standard enabling machines to read and understand images. Cortica’s vision is to embed its capabilities in all next-generation platforms where understanding images is a critical task. This includes autonomous vehicles, smart city applications, security cameras, drones, media, robotics, and medical image analysis. Cortica’s headquarters and R&D center are based in Israel employing over 80 leading AI researchers and veterans of elite Israeli military intelligence units.