Maker of Devin, the AI software engineer; acquired Windsurf in 2025
AI📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2023
Current Valuation
$10B
as of 2025-Q3
DECACORN
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Cognition going public?
No. Cognition is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Cognition's valuation in 2026?
Cognition is valued at $10B as of 2025-Q3, set by its Series C ($400M, Sep 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Cognition filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Cognition.
Who are Cognition's investors?
Cognition's investors include Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, 8VC, Peter Thiel.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Cognition is an applied AI lab focused on reasoning, best known for Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer launched in March 2024. In July 2025 Cognition acquired rival AI coding startup Windsurf for its IDE and team, and two months later raised a $400M round led by Founders Fund at a $10.2B valuation.
Company Profile
CEO
Scott Wu
Founded
2023
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Est. Revenue
$155M (2025)
Growth
Devin ARR scaled from $1M to $73M between Sep 2024 and Jun 2025
Last Round
Series C — $400M (Sep 2025) · Lead: Founders Fund
IPO Status
none
Fundraising Status
Series C · $400M · 11 mo ago
none
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$137.73
Last round price / share
$125.93
vs last round
+9.4%
Open interest
16
Last round price vs secondary price
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series C
$400M
Sep 2025
Founders Fund
—
Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
No verified Hugging Face organization found for Cognition — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-08-19. Re-checked weekly.
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
85
via ashby
Product-build share
46%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 46% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Research Engineer, Post-TrainingDeployed EngineerApplied AI Transformation ManagerProduct EngineerAI Support EngineerDeployed Engineer - Europe
Counted from Cognition's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Scott WuSteven HaoWalden Yan
Investors
Founders Fund · Khosla Ventures · 8VC · Peter Thiel
Products
Devin (autonomous AI software engineer)
Windsurf (code editor)
DeepWiki
Competitors
Cursor · GitHub Copilot · Anthropic Claude Code · Replit
AICode AgentsDeveloper ToolsUnicorn
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.