Community building Tech Startup looking for a Logo!

This is what Cortex was looking for in their logo design

We're looking for a logo for a new project called 'Cortex'. It's an open source development platform that helps startups build software together, faster. Our goal is to build a community of startups so that innovation can be shared!

The logo should exert a sense of community and collaboration, while also representing the hi-tech aspect of the project. It needs to look good on a task bar, as an app-icon on a mobile device and as favicon for a webpage.

We have a slight preference for the color orange. Don't get caught up on that though. We like surprises.

The attached Mack, Pinterest, Fitbit (nice one), ghost, clipboard, Hipchat and Buffer logos are good references of the styles we like. Read more