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Cognition

Backed byLux Capital

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Total raised$3206.0M
StageSeries D
Hiring pace51 roles / 90d
Founded2023
Team size51-200
HQSan Francisco, United States
Industries
AI/MLDeveloper ToolsSaaS

About Cognition

The company is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. They are the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. They are building collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems. They empower engineering teams to strive for more ambitious goals. They produce Windsurf, the AI-native IDE.

Open positions · 55

Company at a glance

Location
San Francisco, United States
Websitecognition.ai
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Founders & Leadership

RK

Russell Kaplan

President at Cognition

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SP

Shands Pickett

Cognition // former Scale, Premise, U.S. Army Human Terrain System

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AS

Adhyyan Sekhsaria

Human Engineer at Cognition

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DK

Dorian Kendal

Marketing executive I Transformation leader | Builder and mentor of great teams

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NW

Neal Wu

Founding team @ Cognition | ex-Ramp, ex-Brain

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About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Engineering37%
  • Sales34%
  • Operations12%
  • No Information7%
  • Other Specialized4%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Stanford University
  2. 2.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  3. 3.Harvard University
  4. 4.University of California, Berkeley
  5. 5.University of Michigan

Team Worked At

  • OpenAI
  • DeepMind
  • Google
  • Amazon
  • Meta

Team Composition

230 people
  • Engineering3 senior55
  • Sales5 senior29
  • Operations3 senior16
  • Marketing1 senior14
  • Information Technology2 senior12
  • Business Development1 senior8
  • Leadership3 senior8
  • Entrepreneurship6 senior7

Culture & values

We are an applied AI lab.

We are building collaborative AI teammates.

Our aim is to enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems.

We strive to empower engineering teams to achieve more ambitious goals.

Funding History

Cumulative Funding

Life at Cognition

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