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Cognition

Cognition builds Devin, an autonomous AI software engineering agent, and the Windsurf IDE, sold to enterprise engineering teams that want to automate end-to-end coding tasks rather than just get inline suggestions.

cognition.ai · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·COGNITION·26

StageVenture (Round not Specified)September 2025[26]

Raised$675Mdisclosed rounds[26]

Headcount200as of May 2026[26]

Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger

Founded2023[10][14]

Money

Raised $675M across disclosed rounds.[26]

Venture (Round not Specified) closed September 2025.[26]

Round size and post-money valuation are not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Founders Fund, 8VC, Lux Capital, Elad Gil, Definition Capital, Swish Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Conviction Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, D1 Capital, Hanabi Capital.[8][10][14][15]

People

Scott Wu, Co-Founder and CEO[27][28][29]

Walden Yan, Co-Founder[27][28][29]

Steven Hao, Co-Founder[27][28][29]

Russell Kaplan, President[2][5][30][6]

Silas Alberti, Head of Research (Founding Team)[2][5][30][6]

Emily Cohen, SVP, Operations & People[2][5][30][6]

Takumi Masai, President & General Manager, Japan[2][5][30][6]