Former Grocery Delivery Rivals Launch Math AI Startup Corca with $7.8M Nvidia-Backed Funding
Two former competitors in New York's grocery delivery market, Oleg Shevlyagin and Anton Gladkoborodov, have co-founded Corca, an AI-powered collaborative workspace for mathematical work, raising $7.8 million in seed funding led by Nvidia's venture arm. The founders met after their respective delivery startups collapsed and bonded over frustration with outdated math software tools. The startup positions itself as infrastructure for technical professionals in AI, engineering, finance, and scientific computing.
Corca, a newly funded math software startup, was founded by Oleg Shevlyagin and Anton Gladkoborodov, who previously competed as founders of rival grocery delivery services 1520 and Fridge No More. After both companies failed following unsuccessful acquisition attempts, the two founders discovered they lived blocks apart in Brooklyn and began meeting to discuss physics, eventually identifying a market gap in collaborative mathematical tools. The startup raised $7.8 million in seed funding from investors including Nvidia's NVentures, NEA, Bloomberg Beta, and Daft Capital. Corca's platform allows users to write equations, run calculations, receive AI assistance, and collaborate in real time, positioning itself as a modernized alternative to decades-old tools like MATLAB and LaTeX. The 12-person startup has already attracted over 10,000 users and plans to keep its core product free while developing paid AI and computational features.
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They were grocery delivery rivals. Now they're teaming up to build an Nvidia-backed 'Cursor for math.'
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