Cognition
Cognition is an AI coding company that builds software agents for engineering work.
- TYPE
- Company
- SIGNALS
- 10
- FIRST SEEN
- Sep 1, 2026
- LAST SEEN
- Oct 28, 2026
Recent signals
- Sources: AI coding startup Cognition weighs a new funding round before year's end after receiving offers valuing it at $70B-$80B, up from $48B in September (Katie Roof/Business Insider) Oct 28, 2026
- Hone, founded by former OpenAI and Cognition staffers to create AI agents that can help run a business, raised a $60M seed at a $285M valuation (Bloomberg) Oct 8, 2026
- First Vera Rubin NVL72 Customer Sees 4.8x Throughput | CoreWeave Oct 2, 2026
- Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says he terminated Chris Degnan, alleging Degnan confided with Cognition execs while advising Factory before joining Cognition as CRO (Rya Jetha/Business Insider) Sep 30, 2026
- Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne (Sam Sabin/Axios) Sep 30, 2026
- Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra Sep 11, 2026
- [AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded Sep 9, 2026
- AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M (Samantha Oltman/Bloomberg) Sep 8, 2026
- Sources: Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest (Bloomberg) Sep 1, 2026
- AI Startup Cognition Set to Raise Around $1 Billion at a $47 Billion Value Sep 1, 2026